A provocative naming idea for "setter" methods

Tony Garnock-Jones tonyg at lshift.net
Tue Sep 20 03:13:23 PDT 2005


Brian Rice wrote:
> <A-
> <-A-
> <A<

Does there have to be punctuation on both sides?

    myObject x= 3.
    window top= 200.

Otherwise, perhaps,

    myObject =x= 3.
    window =top= 200.

or

    myObject :x= 3.
    window :top= 200.

Of course, that last one might run foul of the special role of colon in 
ST-like syntaces.

Tony




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