[OT] A continuing pain

Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net
Fri Jun 23 15:14:17 EDT 2006


Richmond-

Friday, June 23, 2006, 3:41:06 AM, you wrote:

> The problem is that because the primate over-generalises it expects consistency . .

> The primate has experienced pain because of its over-generalising
> tendencies with the use of THE in xTalk:

> the vis, the backgroundColour, the shadow

I always thought "the" was used with properties, or with internal
functions aliased to properties...

Actually, I find the use of "the" much more consistent than trying to
figure out the logic or syntax of "in" vs "of".

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net




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