Juerd wrote:
> foo._______:bar
Would suffice for my needs. Not sure if people are willing to give up
their underscore-only method names, though.
When is the last time that you saw an underscore-only method name?
Gaal Yahas wrote:
But it doesn't work across lines:
Take another look at my original proposal: I didn't suggest
_replacing_ whitespace with underscores; I suggested _supplementing_
it[1] - so
$xyzzy.foo()
$fooz.:foo()
$foo. :foo()
$fa. :foo()
$and_a_long_one_I_still_want_to_align.
:foo()
$etc. :foo()
would still work, but so would
$foo._:foo()
$fa.__:foo()
$and_a_long_one_I_still_want_to_align._
______:foo()
$etc._:foo()
...and the latter five would be the recommended way of doing it.
--
Jonathan Lang
[1] This is a nod to TIMTOWTDI; technically, one could be as
restrictive as requiring any block of whitespace in a long dot to
begin with a newline (thus restricting its use to line wrapping and
alignment of the new line) and still have a perfectly viable long dot
syntax.
