Ary Borenszweig wrote: > But in the case of name vs. name() it's much simple: it's a really > simple convention *that already exists in almost every other language*. > Ok, people can choose not to follow it, just like naming functions with > silly names, or not adopting naming conventions, but... why would they > do that?
+1 It's pure convention that 'a = x.b' reads a property, 'x.b = a' writes a property, and 'a + b' performs addition. However, these are /useful/ conventions that aid understanding. The 'a + b' case is apparently useful enough to merit special language support, so why not the others? And if properties somehow manage to solve the rvalue return problem, so much the better. -- Rainer Deyke - rain...@eldwood.com
