@property - take it behind the woodshed and shoot it?

Dicebot m.strashun at gmail.com
Sun Jan 27 06:14:17 PST 2013


On Sunday, 27 January 2013 at 14:11:13 UTC, TommiT wrote:
> On Sunday, 27 January 2013 at 13:42:33 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> If we require clever IDE to distinguish visually something as 
>> basic as data semantics and callable semantics it is an 
>> indicator language design is screwed.
>
> Why is it an indicator of that?

Because it fails to maintain and control semantics on its own.

> Notepad opens text files. There is nothing that says that the 
> source files of X programming language must be text files. It's 
> just a convention, not a law or a real limitation in designing 
> languages.

Text is still most efficient form of providing information. 
Please call me back when something better will be invented. Then 
we can speak about minimal editing environment for it.


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