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Postings from July 2000
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 09:42:43PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Tom Christiansen wrote: > > > >Is it just me, or are these two not supposed to be the same in the C++ > > >world anyway? Just as these are distinct in C++: > > > > > foo.method() > > > > > foo->method() > > > > > > It's Java and Python that has just the dot. And, I bet, some BASIC crud. > > ObjectCOBOL too, I think. (And no, I'm not checking. The thought of > object-oriented COBOL is evil enough, thanks--I don't need details to > populate my CS nightmares...) Other languages that use a dot: Eiffel, Ada, Modula-3. Languages that don't use a dot: Smalltalk-80, which uses whitespace, and LPC, which uses -> (but that's really syntactical sugar for a procedurial (sic!) interface to call methods: call_other (object, method, args...)). Pike is a decendent from LPC, but I don't know whether it retained the arrow. Abigail