Am Freitag, 21. November 2014, 18:48:16 schrieb David A. Wheeler: > It is obviously possible to change the semantics of leading period. > I am hesitant to add yet another operator; you may disagree but I > really tried to make it a short list.
I know you did. Every single additional operator came from a structure you found in code which wasn’t represented elegantly enough in sweet. I decided to forgo that goal and instead assume that the coding style will adapt to some degree to the language as long as the technically necessary features as well as 90% of the general cases are represented elegantly. Since the leading period is already almost part of the syntax, it might have a much lower conceptual cost than other operators. That’s why I chose it for that, after all ☺ > I also really wanted to fix the notation, but leading period is > basically never used so that is probably not really a problem. > > Let me think about it. Happily :) Best wishes, Arne
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