Aaron Sherman skribis 2005-05-16 5:54 (-0400): > On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 19:18 +0200, Juerd wrote: > > Now: > > Declaration Explicit Implicit $_ $?SELF > > has $.var | $obj.var \ .var \ ./var \ > > has $:var | $obj.:var \ .:var \ ./:var \ > > Consistent: > > has $.var \ $obj.var \ .var \ ./var \ > > has $.:var \ $obj.:var \ .:var \ ./:var \ > > See it yet? It's about consistency in the whole scheme, not the clarity > > of a single element. > I'm not sure I see that you changed anything other than changing "Old > way" to "Now", "Your proposal" to "Consistent", adding separator > characters between the columns, and removing the word "Implicit" from > the last column.
Okay, let's try it differently, then: Now: Declaration Explicit Implicit $_ $?SELF . | . \ . \ . \ : | .: \ .: \ . : \ Consistent: . \ . \ . \ . \ .: \ .: \ .: \ . : \ > I think you're confusing the method glyph "." and the attribute glyph, > also "." in the first and second columns. It's the same thing. $.foo installs an accessor *method*. $object.foo calls that method, it doesn't access $object's $.foo directly. > > Note that it's not *implicit* $?SELF. "./" is a prefix operator that > > calls a method on $?SELF > That's picking nits. In the process of designing something, every single nit must be picked. Don't take it personally. Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http://convolution.nl/gajigu_juerd_n.html