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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