Re: Parenthesized Target Notation (was: Partial retraction)

Richard A. O'Keefe a écrit :

>	  require
>	  h
>	  (a + b).g
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>That is, the (| ... |) stuff is being introduced to solve
>an ambiguity problem that CONFESSEDLY DOES NOT EXIST!
>The presence of the "." after the ")" disambiguates!
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The ambiguity remains because 'h' could be either a parameterless 
feature or a feature that takes one argument. This is a problem for 
front-end based tools like syntax highlighter, that need to lookup a 
symbol table to parse the code properly, and become more complex.

>Not only that, this problem, if problem it can honestly be said to be,
>is one which is ALREADY solved by all the Eiffel systems that the GOBO
>library can be used with, because the GOBO 3.3 library has quite a lot
>of occurrences.
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Sure, it was a bit late to change one's mind ...

Valéry