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

[Ralph Becket]

> From: Simon Taylor [mailto:stayl at cs.mu.OZ.AU]
> Sent: 06 July 2001 14:28
> 
> How is the length of a string settable?

I also think that read-only fields are a good thing.

Can this problem not be resolved by considering (^) as
method invocation rather than field access?  Java, C# etc.
are all quite happy to overload (.) for field access and
method invocation.

- Ralph
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