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Re: New Object Method Invocation Syntax Brokenness [message #76204 is a reply to message #76081]

Thu, 19 May 2011 09:20

JDS
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Thanks, Chris. This also means that continuing to use "->" will offer the safest way forward, since the dual meaning of a.b(c) is implicit and never reported. I think a new user, i.e. those who are most likely to adopt "." for method invocation, is likely to *mean* a->b(c) here, since they quite likely know nothing of the old () form of indexing, and will therefore also rather reasonably presume the difference is between a.b(c) (method call) and a.b[c] (variable subscript). Without IDL2 in force, and in the likely situation of both a method and class variable named 'b', these are identical.

It would be useful to have a means of enforcing IDL2 across all routines in a file, or even by class (e.g. in class__define), so that you have to include it once and only once.

JD

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		Re: New Object Method Invocation Syntax Brokenness By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Wed, 18 May 2011 15:02
		Re: New Object Method Invocation Syntax Brokenness By: penteado on Tue, 17 May 2011 10:37
		Re: New Object Method Invocation Syntax Brokenness By: JDS on Tue, 17 May 2011 09:17
		Re: New Object Method Invocation Syntax Brokenness By: penteado on Mon, 16 May 2011 18:09
		Re: New Object Method Invocation Syntax Brokenness By: JDS on Mon, 16 May 2011 15:35
		Re: New Object Method Invocation Syntax Brokenness By: wlandsman on Mon, 16 May 2011 14:58
		Re: New Object Method Invocation Syntax Brokenness By: David Fanning on Mon, 16 May 2011 14:19
		Re: New Object Method Invocation Syntax Brokenness By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 16 May 2011 14:03
		Re: New Object Method Invocation Syntax Brokenness By: pgrigis on Mon, 16 May 2011 13:46
		Re: New Object Method Invocation Syntax Brokenness By: JDS on Thu, 19 May 2011 09:20
		Re: New Object Method Invocation Syntax Brokenness By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Fri, 10 June 2011 13:03

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