[Gllug] Perl, the dogs nadgers?

[David Irvine]

----- Original Message -----
From: David Freeman <freemadi at yahoo.co.uk>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Perl, the dogs nadgers?


> --- 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.
>
Sorry to bring this back up but wouldnt it be fly's since that is the plural
of fly as in the annoyning insects that buzz? Or is my dyslexia kicking in?

D

> Thanks
>
> D
>
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> >
> > 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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