Re: Expression-local variables and 'let'

> >"let" is a command, it's active and direct - "let this be true!".

> Agreed. Unfortunately, that's also why it does not seem right in the 
> middle of an expression.

We can go around and around. 
Seems to me that we're optimizing for the (wild assed guess) 20% of
user-defined statements, rather than ordinary assignments. And I'd side
with the Ada designers for readability over concision - readability
helps me write correct code.

On another topic:
>>>What's wrong with alike?
>>It's an adjective, in Nice we use it as a pronoun.  
> We use it as a type. Note that Cloneable, Serializable, etc, are also
> adjectives used as types.

Cloneable and Serializable are not of our making, they are gifts from
Java used as nouns. And they make some sort of sense, implementors of
Cloneable are cloneable.

IIRC 'alike' corresponds to the type in the same way that 'this'
corresponds to the instance of that type - 'alike' is 'selftype' or
'thistype'.

I understand Brian's discomfort with 'alike'.
OTOH we say that these are multimethods and there is no privileged
method receiver; OTOH we don't have a way to express 'alike' when the
method is outside a class. 

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