What is the word for "call" but not using the 'call' command

Jan Schenkel janschenkel at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 17 15:41:11 EDT 2004


--- Dar Scott <dsc at swcp.com> wrote:
> Consider this handler:
> 
> on doSomething
>     doThis
>     doThat
> end doSomething
> 
> I would normally say that doSomething calls doThat. 
> But there is a 
> command called 'call'.  Is there a prefered xTalk
> word?  Executes?  
> Invokes?  Uses?  (Hmmm, sounds like 'start
> using'...)  Directly calls?
> 
> Dar
> 

Hi Dar,

I'd go for 'invoke' but I've been taking a VB.NET
course so you shouldn't always trust my views ;-)

Jan Schenkel

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"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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