From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-08-10T03:44:45+09:00
Subject: Re: ambiguity between local variable assignment and writter method

Tom Sawyer <transami@transami.net> writes:

> > 
> > self.localvar = x
> > 
> 
> code smell.

I don't think it's a smell: it is distinguishing different uses.

However, I'm wondering if we could be more succinct? For top-level
constants, we can write

    ::Fred

Could we similarly allow a '.' at the start of a statement to be
shorthand for 'self.', so we could write

   .setter = 123

meaning

   self.setter = 123

If we had that, I might be tempted to use it for normal method calls
too.


Dave