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Re: y/rple/yma/ (was: LALR (was Re: Working Group Proposal))

From:
Gary Richardson
Date:
July 24, 2000 13:27
Subject:
Re: y/rple/yma/ (was: LALR (was Re: Working Group Proposal))
Message ID:
00072413270109.05843@localhost.localdomain
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Graham Barr wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 08:49:14PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote:
> > He's also said that it's likely that dots will be allowed for indirect
> > object notation:
> > 
> > 	$foo.method();
> > 
> > same as
> > 
> > 	$foo->method();
> 
> That is actually one suggestion I dislike. People refered to this as aligning
> with other languages. But if you consider references like C/C++ pointers then
> we are already aligned with them.
> 
> Graham.

And what about concating strings? What happens to the overloaded . then?



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