> On 10 Mar 2015, at 08:25, Nicolai Hess <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 2015-03-09 22:09 GMT+01:00 Sean P. DeNigris <[email protected]>:
> Marcus Denker-4 wrote
> >> is x: (with colon) a valid inst var name ?
> > no.
> 
> Why complicate the system by special-handling illegal variable names? Just
> let the incorrect x: become the just-as-incorrect x::, no? Or am I missing
> something?
> 
> No it is not about handling illegal variable names.
> The question is, what should #name:  asMutator return
> 1. #name: because it is already a mutator
> 2. #name:: because it might be the mutator for variable "name:"
> 
> (2) is how it actually behaves, but because "name:" is not a valid instance 
> variable name, 
> returning #name:: does not makes sense, so I choose option (1).

+1

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