Why are opCall's not implicitely assignable?
Stewart Gordon
smjg_1998 at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 23 14:56:55 PDT 2006
Karen Lanrap wrote:
> Stewart Gordon wrote:
>> It's distinguishable at the moment by whether the lvalue is a
>> variable or a function.
>>
>> Trying to add a further dependence on the type of the rvalue
>> would make the language more complicated and possibly harder to
>> understand.
>
> This harder understanding is introduced by the existing syntax sugar
> already.
>
> You explain it yourself: reading any "x=y;" one has to know whether
> "x" is a variable or a function because of that syntax sugar.
<snip>
Not if one is interested primarily in what it does, rather than how it
does it. Which is the whole point of properties.
Stewart.
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