Am 19.04.2014 10:09, schrieb Richard Warburton:
Thanks for the feedback guys - its most appreciated and I'll take a look
through the detailed linked you provided.
Ulf posted several links, but these seem mostly related to language change
Not all of them, but yes, mostly.
proposals related to implicit method invocation chaining. I don't think
these proposals are active at the moment, so I'd suggest that you pursue a
library-only change.
I had no intention in my original email to broaden the scope of this change
to include changing the type system itself! I was only really thinking
about a library level change, though I appreciate the links Ulf, thanks.
My proposed language change would ...
- include the benefit of covariant overrides
- solve situations, where covariant overrides don't help
- need less byte code
- have less backport issues
- avoid massive API reengineering
- cover methods which don't return this today
- offer interesting extensions e.g. "leading dot" syntax
Thanks for reading my proposal.
-Ulf
