Re: [friam] Delegation is the Cornerstone of Civilization: Sharing in Sandstorm.io

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 5:34 PM, Mark Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 5:08 AM, 'Ben Laurie' via friam
>> b) The idea of looking up "Mom" in "Bob"'s namespace seems to violate
>> the intent of petnames - i.e. I don't care who Bob thinks his Mom is,
>> I care who _I_ think it is.
>
>
> Interesting and valid point. Never occurred to me. Smalltalk '72 (yes, 1972)
> used 's (apostrophe ess) for what modern languages use infix dot for. Your
> observation points out an important semantic difference: "Bob.Mom" would be
> more readily understood by programmers are who Bob's Mom is according to
> Bob, rather than who I think his mom is. But only by programmers
> unfortunately.

In English, I think the shortest phrase is "Bob's claimed mother".
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Mike Stay
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