Re: Dot can DWIM without whitespace

[Dave]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:38:50PM -0700, Brent Dax wrote:

[snip four examples are obvious ...]
 
>>> $a."b";

If a has a method 'foo' such that

        $a.foo

is the standard invocation, it would be nice when $b = 'foo' for
        
        $a.foo === $a."$b" === $a.$b

How I see the . operator working in this case is as something like

        $a.foo === &{$a{foo}}

Hence that would logically follow that

&{$a{foo}} === $a.foo === &{$a{"$b"}} === $a."$b" === $a.$b === &{$a{$b}}

and this case

>>> a.b;        

is either an error, or something very scary.

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