Names with trailing question mark
Jacob Carlborg
doob at me.com
Tue Oct 4 07:03:45 PDT 2011
On 2011-10-04 12:12, Christophe wrote:
>
> I don't really like this idea. D has limitations to accepted symbol that
> are strict, but handy in many cases. Accepting strange character in a
> method name can lead to parsing ambiguities and I like the way D enforce
> non-ambiguous code. I understand why we can think that the question mark
> is nicer than an auxilliary in this case, but where to draw the line?
> The question mark already lead to a (small) parsing ambiguity.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. If we allow "name?" should we allow
"name!" as well (as Ruby does). Is there anything else we should allow?
Allow everything?
I was thinking something like that.
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/Jacob Carlborg
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