Re: Parenthesized Target Notation (was: Partial retraction)

"Richard A. O'Keefe" <[email protected]> Tue, 3 May 2005 14:55:03 +1200 (NZST)

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Concerning
	>	  require
	>	  h
	>	  (a + b).g
	>  
	>
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Val=E9ry_Croizier?= <[email protected]> wrote:
	The ambiguity remains because 'h' could be either a parameterless 
	feature or a feature that takes one argument.

Yes, avoiding the ambiguity means not shutting your eyes to everything
you know.

There are other places in the new syntax where there are, um, awkwardnesses.
Now that there are both 'bracket aliases' _and_ tuples, I invite you to
consider the possible confusions.

	Sure, it was a bit late to change one's mind ...

Exactly so.