On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 01:44:44PM +0200, Juerd wrote:
: A few days ago, when typing ./pugs,... You can guess the rest :)
: 
: I suggest
: 
:     ./method
: 
: to mean $?SELF.method, and
: 
:     ../method
: 
: to mean $?SELF.SUPER::method, or however that's normally written.

That's almost terminally cute, but I like it.  Unless someone can
think of a major objection (such as that it makes it too easy to use
SUPER semantics rather than NEXT semantics), let's go with it.

>From a programmer point of view the mnemonic is pragmatically good,
because use of ./ in shell is mostly only for commands, so people
are used to seeing it as part of an invocation process, not just a
file location process.

Larry

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