Re: Trivial (but not bikeshed please) question of style…

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/28/14 10:56 AM, "Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" wrote:
> On Tuesday, 28 October 2014 at 14:04:35 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> I think it means, send result to parent. Isn't this what you said?
>
> I had to run out the door and hit enter too early… :P
>
>> On the larger question, I think whatever seems most natural should be
>> used. UFCS can make things read very confusing. But I don't think this
>> is an example of that.
>
> I think "send" is really only the right term to use for a mediating
> third object: network-connection, mail-agent etc… E.g.:
>
> postoffice.send(letter,person)
> system.send(message,receiver)
>
> vs
>
> flyingcarpet.send_to(location)
> person.receive_letter(mailbox)
> mailbox.receive_letters_from(postman)

I don't think recipient.send(mail) is that unintuitive. It's how I would 
visualize it from a contact application for instance.

-Steve