27 Aug
2014
27 Aug
'14
6:40 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 3:44 AM, Stephen R. van den Berg srb@cuci.nl wrote:
- There obviously is no `= lfun. Is that technically challenging or hasn't there simply been no need to make it possible?
Don't like this idea! When you assign to a name, it should always rebind. Imagine:
mixed foo = String.Buffer(); foo = "asdf";
Should that call foo->`=("asdf"), or reassign foo? IMO it should absolutely always reassign. Otherwise you get something like PHP's references - a pain to work with.
ChrisA