From: chiaro scuro <kiaroskuro@...>
Date: 2006-03-01T00:33:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Subclassing Struct.new

On 2/28/06, gwtmp01@mac.com <gwtmp01@mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 28, 2006, at 9:55 AM, chiaro scuro wrote:
> The problem, of course, is that methods can come and go so you would
> have to check every time the assignment was executed and I don't
> think you would want the assignment to be to a local variable at one
> point and then to be a method call at another.

that wouldn't worry me. it's a rare event that tests would probably
catch anyway.
I understand that it has been implemented statically, and that the
whole mechanism would need changing, but don't you agree that this
syntactic tagging and static interpretation of '=' is a kind of
defensive programming that we could do well without?

> It has to be determined statically.  So any 'solution' to the problem
> would probably be to introduce some clear syntactical hint with
> respect to local variables...

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