Re: Revisiting field references

2019-06-04 Thread John Rose
On Jun 4, 2019, at 4:22 PM, Brian Goetz wrote: > > For prototyping purposes, I wouldn't try to use the same token; that's just > making your life harder. Pick something easily parsable, even if its hideous. In fact, it's often beneficial to adopt a __ClearlyHideousSyntax for prototyping or

Re: Revisiting field references

2019-06-04 Thread Brian Goetz
Alan; Thanks for these thoughts.  Indeed, field references are something that keep coming up in the "if we only had" department, and your analysis covers many of the important points.  They are especially useful in APIs such as the Equivalence one that Kevin and Liam have already written

Re: Revisiting field references

2019-06-04 Thread Remi Forax
- Mail original - > De: "Alan Malloy" > À: "amber-spec-experts" > Envoyé: Mardi 4 Juin 2019 00:19:10 > Objet: Revisiting field references Hi Alan, i'm sorry but i've more questions than answers, > Hello, amber-spec-experts. I understand that "field references" is an > idea that was