[m-dev.] Freeze the compiler

[Fergus Henderson]

On 10-Nov-2000, Ralph Becket <rbeck at microsoft.com> wrote:
> >From Fergus Henderson on 10/11/2000 06:19:43
> > On 09-Nov-2000, Peter Ross <peter.ross at miscrit.be> wrote:
> > > I think it is time to freeze the compiler for the next release.
> > 
> > OK, at very least the time for anyone who has features that they want
> > to go in the next release to name them -- speak now or forever hold
> > your peace ;-).
> 
> I presume the freeze would also apply to the library?  If so, I'd
> like to check in the `@'-as-synonym-for-`lookup' change I've made
> to my local copy (my interpretation of the debate was that many
> people agreed it would be a good thing and those who didn't diverged
> in several different directions).
> 
> Yea/nay?

I'd like to take a conservative approach and leave this one as is for now.

Peter Schachte's suggestion of making whatever syntax we use work
with `:=' is a good one, i.e. providing support for what C#
and (I think) Delphi call "indexers" in addition to our current
support for "properties".  But I think that would require a syntax
like `map^elem(Key)', which would be incompatible with the use of `@'.

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