On 05-03-2012 11:46, Stewart Gordon wrote:
On 05/03/2012 04:26, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
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Additionally, I think that dropping the need for parentheses on
invariant declarations
would be a good idea, such that it feels more like unittest declarations.
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It can't be done at the moment, because invariant is also the old name
for immutable. Indeed, the brackets were introduced to distinguish
between the two meanings, though it would have been better to introduce
a new keyword in the first place rather than create a new meaning of
invariant that required a change to existing syntax.
Stewart.
Shouldn't invariant as a type modifier be deprecated once and for all? I
mean, immutable has existed for a long time now...
Also, just so we're on the same page here, you mean the parentheses,
right? If so, I'm not sure I quite understand where the problem arises.
Could you elaborate?
Thanks!
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- Alex
