What is the word for "call" but not using the 'call' command
Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
revolution at jaedworks.com
Tue Aug 17 18:46:01 EDT 2004
At 1:27 PM -0600 8/17/2004, Dar Scott 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?
"Call" seems fine to me in this context. (After all, it's why the
call command is called that, and not the "invoke" command, or...)
You could also say that doSomething sends a doThis message.
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