On 08/12/2016 10:37 AM, oldk1331 wrote:
>>    foo bar.fieldname

> OT a little, I think "bar.fieldname" equals to "bar fieldname"? Then one
> can still write "foo bar fieldname".

True. Semantically, it's the same. But fields are (at least in our
context) usually denoted with a dot and changing that would also be
confusing.

Well, the confusing thing for me is actually that "foo bar" is a prefix
notation of function foo applied to bar, whereas I consider
bar.fieldname somewhat like applying the "function" fieldname to the
variable bar instead of seeing this as a function bar applied to the
constant "fieldname. So bar.fieldname looks to me like a postfix
notation (although as you show with "foo bar fieldname" it actually is
the more like the other view of applying bar to the constant "fieldname".)

Anyway, no matter what we agree on, step by step writing down some
programming guidelines is good. And I support that (even though we do
not have many programmers where proper guidelines would be more vital
for the project.

Ralf

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