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

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From:
Graham Barr
Date:
July 24, 2000 16:24
Subject:
Re: y/rple/yma/ (was: LALR (was Re: Working Group Proposal))
Message ID:
20000724210955.T3689@pobox.com
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.

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