Re: The old "Object.Method" syntax debate

[Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>]

Preben Randhol wrote:

>David C. Hoos wrote:
>
>> In defense of the charge that the objection is "vacuous," I would point
>> out that that notation prevents the need to fully qualify the subprogram
>> name (in the absence of use clauses) when invoking the subprogram
>> for an object which is in scope.
>
>How will this work?

Instead of

|My_Windows_Package.A_Window_Method (Win_Object, ...);

you then write:

|Win_Object.A_Window_Method (...);

Well, although I'm quite used to that kind of syntax, I personally
don't like that idea very much. The main reason is that it might be
confusing to see both sorts of syntaxes in a single source file one
day...


Vinzent.

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