[Lift] what is the meaning of _! and _?

2010-01-08 Thread harmanjd
I am reading through the lift book to start getting an understanding of lift. I saw code like this override def readPermission_? = true override def writePermission_? = true protected def i_obscure_!(in : BigDecimal) = defaultValue protected def real_i_set_!(value : BigDecimal): BigDecimal = {

Re: [Lift] what is the meaning of _! and _?

2010-01-08 Thread David Pollak
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:54 AM, harmanjd harma...@gmail.com wrote: I am reading through the lift book to start getting an understanding of lift. I saw code like this override def readPermission_? = true override def writePermission_? = true protected def i_obscure_!(in : BigDecimal) =

Re: [Lift] what is the meaning of _! and _?

2010-01-08 Thread David Pollak
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Jim Wise jw...@draga.com wrote: harmanjd harma...@gmail.com writes: My question is if there is some implied meaning by ending a field in _! or not? It seems confusing as a newbie to have that when scala has an _ operator and a _*. I got confused with

Re: [Lift] what is the meaning of _! and _?

2010-01-08 Thread Jim Wise
David Pollak feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com writes: The _ is required by the Scala parser. open! is not a valid method name, but open_! is valid. Aha! -- Jim Wise jw...@draga.com pgpCgWKVQwRyO.pgp Description: PGP signature