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

[Fergus Henderson]

On 06-Jul-2001, Ralph Becket <rbeck at microsoft.com> wrote:
> > 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.

Those languages distinguish field access from method invocation
by the absence or presence of "()" after the field/method name.

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