On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 06:58, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > I guess we were going to figure out if we want to add the artificial > notion of the length field, or just ask people to use size(). 'length' > is really weird, as it doesn't really exist as a field, and only > applies to arrays. > > Why confuse the syntax with an additional way to get size?
People may expect "length" to work, but as long as it is properly documented for users I see no problem with asking people to use size() instead of length. "length" is a public final field in all array types, but from what I see ASTIdentifier just delegates to ASTArrayAccess which then decides how to deal with an identifier (isMap -> isList -> isArray -> bean prop). We could just as easily add a step after accessing a bean property in ASTArrayAccess which tried to access a public field. What do you think? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
