Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
To be on the safe side, method (and function) names *should* be quoted. I
don't think that this is inconsistent.
Is there a reason that you would want to conflate method names and
variables used as a method name? If not, why not change the syntax
slightly so that method names in a variable are uniquely identified?
Here's a suggestion:
obj.foo() # a methodname constant
.local string bar
bar = get_some_meth()
obj.$bar() # a method variable
Exactly, change the most common case (of a method call by bare name) to
be the unmarked case, and use some additional marking on the less common
case of calling a method by a string name or method object. I wouldn't
use '$' to mark the string lookup because it's too confusing with the
temporary register variables ($S0, etc). But some other syntactic sugar
would work. This is clumsy, but then, it's also rare.
obj.{bar}() # a string method name
obj.{$S1}()
Allison
