[Gllug] Perl, the dogs nadgers?

David Freeman freemadi at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Jul 16 07:54:50 UTC 2001


 --- Bruce Richardson <brichardson at lineone.net> wrote: > On Sun, Jul
15, 2001 at 05:13:28PM +0100, David Freeman wrote:
> > > Time flies like a arrow.
> > > Fruit flies like a banana.
> > 
> > Time is an object which has the property of fly which is being
> > inherited from the object arrow so they both operate in a similiar
> > manner.
> > 
> > Fruit has the property of fly which is being inherited from banana
> > which is a sub class of fruit.
> > 
> > makes sense to me. Just all depends on how you look at it.
> 
> Alternative meanins:
> 
> Measue the time it takes flies to perform (unspecified action) in the
> manner that an arrow would time them.
> 
> The Time Fly (close relative of the Elephant Fly) is partial to
> arrows.
> 
> It is the appropriate moment for flies to be partial to arrows.
 

But if flies was an object and not a property, then it would be Flies.
Hence it is not anoything todo with flying insects.

Thanks

D
 
> -- 
> Bruce
> 
> You can fool some of the people all the time, you can fool all of
> the people some of the time but you can never fool your mother.
> 

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