On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 11:38:10AM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 27. September 2006 09:12 schrieb Allison Randal:
>
> > The basic problem is inconsistency. For hand-written code the current
> > PIR method call syntactic sugar is mildly annoying. (It'd be nice to
> > safely get rid of the quotes around the method name.)
>
> Not easily:
>
> obj.'foo'() # a methodname constant
> .local string bar
> bar = get_some_meth() # or bar = 'get_some_meth'()
> obj.bar() # a method variable
>
> But:
>
> obj.foo() # still a methodname constant
> # unless there's a variable 'foo'
>
> To be on the safe side, method (and function) names *should* be quoted. I
> don't think that this is inconsistent.
Is there a reason that you would want to conflate method names and
variables used as a method name? If not, why not change the syntax
slightly so that method names in a variable are uniquely identified?
Here's a suggestion:
obj.foo() # a methodname constant
.local string bar
bar = get_some_meth()
obj.$bar() # a method variable
The same could be used for ordinary subroutines:
.local string mysub
mysub = "foo"
$mysub() # calls the foo subroutine
-Scott
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