On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Ulf Zibis <ulf.zi...@cosoco.de> wrote:
> So to me, this is clearly a language matter, not to solve by tricky
> footprint and/or performance lasting code on APIs:
> People want a _smart syntax_ for consecutive method invocations on the same
> object, that's all!
Amen to that!
However I'm a little concerned with the mental effort a reader needs
to figure out the implicit method receiver. I'd like to see more
explicitness in establishing the implicit method receiver, something
like Pascal's with statement.
expr "."
{
// expr is the implicit receiver for this block
foo(); // interpreted as expr.foo()
}
so that we could write
CharBuffer.allocate(26).{position(2);put("C");position(25);put("Z");}
string.{ mySub=subString(indexOf("C"), indexOf("Q")); }
new HashMap<>().{ put(n1,v1); put(n2,v2); }
new Button().{ color(red); text("hello"); onClick(event->color(blue)); }
Zhong Yu
