On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 18:34 +0200, Juerd wrote:
> I've been looking for a good moment to come with this, but there is
> none, making this as good a point as any: I don't like the dot in
> attributes, and the colon that replaces it.
>
> If we have .method and .:method, then we should have $.attr and $.:attr.
Let's have a look, side-by-side:
Old way:
Declaration Explicit Implicit $_ Implicit $?SELF
has $.var $obj.var .var ./var
has $:var $obj.:var .:var ./:var
Your proposal:
has $.var $obj.var .var ./var
has $.:var $obj.:var .:var ./:var
Scanning over those two sets visually, I just don't see that extra "."
as a very big win.... Perhaps if I try in some code:
$.:var = 1;
vs
$:var = 1;
Still not seeing it....
