Trivial (but not bikeshed please) question of style…

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On Wednesday, 29 October 2014 at 02:00:20 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 10/28/14 9:02 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> I don't think recipient.send(mail) is that unintuitive. It's 
>> how I would
>> visualize it from a contact application for instance.
>
> Totally. It's actually how OOP started - calling a method was 
> sending a message to an object etc. -- Andrei

Incorrect, the message passing terminology comes from Smalltalk, 
but this applies there too.

OOP started with Simula67 which focused on Object Oriented 
Modeling for simulation. You have a world of objects, 
representing aspects of their real world counterparts (abstract 
or concrete). These objects have methods which represent 
actions/events of the object.

Coherent and sensible naming is considered an important aspect of 
modeling. D has a lot to learn from other areas of CS.