Path: utzoo!telly!attcan!uunet!ibmsupt.uucp!neff
From: neff@ibmpa (randall b neff)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: verb-noun
Message-ID: <1990Jul31.163457.25596@ibmpa>
Date: 31 Jul 90 16:34:57 GMT
Reply-To: neff@ibmsupt.UUCP (randall b neff)
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Organization: IBM AWD Development, Palo Alto
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In drawing editors, where there is a verb-noun noun noun ... what is
really happening is that the verb is setting a mode for the editor.

The difficulty that I have with noun-verb is object creation, it doesn't
fit this model since there is no object to be the noun.  Possible options
are:  create from a menu, outside the object manipulation;  a template
object (ie a brand new kind of object to represent the class), or a clone
operation (but how do you get the first object of each kind).