From: Markus Fischer <markus@...>
Date: 2011-09-26T20:19:32+09:00
Subject: Re: How about new syntax: "object.\method" returns a Method instance?

On 25.09.2011 16:40, Joey Zhou wrote:
> Well, how about "object.\method" style? You can type "str.\split" to get
> "str.method(:split)".

Personally I find the \ character troublesome: it reminds me too much 
about escaping something, which IMO has no analogy here.

I'm already recovering from eye cancer due PHP adopting "\" as the 
namespace separator ... horrible decision, if you ask me.

I haven't long really worked with/in C, but "&" as the operator for 
getting the address of an something would fit the analogy to get the 
instance of an method:

str.&split

But honestly I don't feel a necessity for it anyway.

- Markus