callable values

[Thomas Jollans]

On 07/10/17 01:58, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 03:25 am, Stefan Ram wrote:
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>>   FWIW, in my course notes, I have coined a special word for
>>   this:
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>>   A /prelate/ (German: "Prälat") is a callable value (object).
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> In English, prelate is a kind of priest, a senior clergyman and dignitary.

... which is, of course, exactly what „Prälat“ means.

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> I don't know whether German makes a practice of taking arbitrary verbs and
> adjectives and turning them into nouns, but English does, and so a callable
> object is just called a "callable".
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