At 7:52 AM -0400 6/18/05, John Siracusa wrote:
That actually looks more "private" to me. Let's line 'em up again:
PUBLIC PRIVATE
---------- ----------
./method() .:method()
[EMAIL PROTECTED]() .:method()
.>method() .:method()
.:method() .>method()
.:method() .::method()
I'm just trying to get some more suggestions out there "on paper," because
it seemed to me that the old thread jumped from ^ to ./ with less
exploration than I'd like.
As I recall, it was decided for a broad scope that public and private
item invocation syntax was exactly the same but with the
consideration that all private items have a ':' as the first
character in their otherwise alphanumeric names (the ':' looks like
part of an operator but it isn't).
That seems to be getting ignored in this discussion, and I *like*
that ':' public vs private consistency, so here's an alteration to
your table:
PUBLIC PRIVATE
---------- ----------
./method() ./:method()
[EMAIL PROTECTED]() .@:method()
.>method() .>:method()
This looks way more consistent and predictable to me.
-- Darren Duncan
