Re: The old "Object.Method" syntax debate

[Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>]

John McCabe wrote:
> 
> In most cases it *is* just a syntactic sugar issue, but it's a very
> big issue when trying to explain to C++ and Java (and Visual Basic)
> users how you would do something equivalent in Ada to what they've
> already learned. The fact that Ada "method" calls look absolutely
> nothing like what you would expect an object-oriented language's
> method calls to look like is, in my view, a big issue in relation to
> Ada's acceptance by less broad-minded developers.

I can understand this, but what I'm scared of is that we get two
overlapping syntaxes which can be confusing? But I need to read the AI
again because I don't understand how this new syntax works.

> As David points out, it *is* very nice to be able to see a pop-up
> window of what options are available for an object as soon as you type
> the ".".

I find this argument a bit odd. Sure it is nice, but to change the
language so that IDE's are easier to make is a bit strange for me :-)

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Preben Randhol                    http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/