[comp.cog-eng] verb-noun

neff@ibmpa (randall b neff) (07/31/90)

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).