Re: Is Smart Eiffel ready for large-scale application ? (Modula 3 and Eiffel ver

>From: Frank Salter <[email protected]>
>So what is the sense of replacing creation with create.
>It makes no sense.  It is extremely bad English, using a verb when clearly 
>a noun is required.

It's certainly not clear to me, Frank, that a noun is required. All of the 
other keywords at the top of a class are imperative verbs: inherit, rename, 
redefine, undefine, select, export.

So 'creation' was the odd one out. Good riddance, I say!

I do see, however, that "create make, make_from_other" is not particularly 
good English. But neither is "creation make, make_from_other". If we wanted 
good English, we would have to write "create with make, make_from_other". 
Hmm, looks COBOL-ish to me: I think 'create' is just fine.

- Peter Gummer