[m-dev.] Re: [m-rev.] field syntax (was: smart recompilation)

Tyson Dowd trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Fri Jul 6 14:17:36 AEST 2001


On 06-Jul-2001, Peter Schachte <schachte at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> But if you want to make the rule that you must *always* define 'foo :=' when
> you define '= foo', and enforce that in the compiler, I could live with
> that, because I can understand it.  It also means that if I see ^ used to
> access something, I know I can use := to set it, which is useful information.
> I'd be disappointed to lose the general pipe-like syntax, but I doubt it's
> important enough to grab another operator for.

I think the general pipe-like syntax is nice enough that we should at
least *explore* the idea of grabbing another operator for it.

Tyson.
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