From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-10-06T03:23:21+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: dynamically changing superclass/mixins

On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Jeremy Tregunna wrote:

> It could be yes. Though the only reason I didn't assign the method to a slot 
> (variable) beforehand was because assignment in Io is different. The parser 
> translates a := b into setSlot("a", b) so I didn't want to confuse any more 
> than was bound to happen by introducing this oddity.

right.  i just read about := != = ...

>
>> is the parse non-ambiguous as
>> 
>>   (method a, a * a) call 5 ; otherStuff
>
> I'm not exactly sure what you're after here. The snippit of code in question 
> isn't ambiguous.

i meant, how many parens can you omit?

-a
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