I find the "receiver" usage actually pretty useful. I know how I like to
be able to do something like
Smalltalk packages do: #commit
in Amber Smalltalk (even if it would be only a few chars longer
Smalltalk packages do: [ :each | each commit ]
but readability is different, b/c the spirit of it is different, latter
being explicitly imperative).
If partial application would win (why not), I would like to come up with
receiver case as well in some other way. For example as:
.x / .f()
instead of
each => each.x / each => each.f()
IOW, would it be at least possible to sort-of future-proof ".xyz" for
this kind of use?
Herby
Tab Atkins Jr. wrote on 28. 11. 2018 21:00:
Aside from the fact that this "placeholder" proposal addresses the
"receiver" and "operator" cases that partial-application explicitly
omits, the two proposals are exactly identical. They're not
"complementary", they're the same thing, just making a different
decision wrt complexity of some of the syntax cases. >
~TJ
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