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From: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
To: alex@barettadeit.com
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Object Attribute Accessor Syntax Extension
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:33:02 +0900 (JST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050324.193302.112811760.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <424281B3.4090807@barettadeit.com>

From: Alex Baretta <alex@barettadeit.com>
> Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> 
> > It may also be nice to have another small extension, so that
> >         o#f <- expr
> > would be handled as
> >         o#set_f <- (expr)
> 
> Doesn't this look dangerously similar to C++? Let us not turn to the 
> Dark Side of object orientation...

I just took the syntax from ruby.
Note that both in ocaml and ruby, you cannot access directly object
fields, so the above syntax is not ambiguous: it can only be syntactic
sugar for a method call.
This is not to be mixed with overloading of assignment in C++, which
changes the semantics of an existing operator.

Jacques Garrigue


      reply	other threads:[~2005-03-24 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-23 20:00 Will M. Farr
2005-03-24  8:13 ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Garrigue
2005-03-24  9:00   ` Alex Baretta
2005-03-24 10:33     ` Jacques Garrigue [this message]

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