On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 09:42:43PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Tom Christiansen wrote:
>
> > >Is it just me, or are these two not supposed to be the same in the C++
> > >world anyway? Just as these are distinct in C++:
> >
> > > foo.method()
> >
> > > foo->method()
> >
> >
> > It's Java and Python that has just the dot. And, I bet, some BASIC crud.
>
> ObjectCOBOL too, I think. (And no, I'm not checking. The thought of
> object-oriented COBOL is evil enough, thanks--I don't need details to
> populate my CS nightmares...)
Other languages that use a dot: Eiffel, Ada, Modula-3.
Languages that don't use a dot: Smalltalk-80, which uses whitespace,
and LPC, which uses -> (but that's really syntactical sugar for
a procedurial (sic!) interface to call methods:
call_other (object, method, args...)).
Pike is a decendent from LPC, but I don't know whether it retained the
arrow.
Abigail
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