Michiel Helvensteijn wrote:
Bill Baxter wrote:
byLine() is a function. It changes the state of stdin. Calling it
consecutively will in general result in different return values. If there
were two guys: stdin.currentLine (property) and stdin.nextLine(), it
would be a different story.
That's not how it works, I think.
Just calling byLine() by itself only returns a range struct.
Consuming things from that range is what changes the state of stdin.
Ah, my bad. I was guessing. Still, returning a handle from a property that
can change the state of the originating object is.. iffy.
I agree. So where's the consensus? Things seemed so clear when people
were beaten with @property over their head.
Andrei
