Re: names / defaults

:= is a valid method name.

Ugh, you stink of Pascal!

2009/6/2 James Iry <jamesiry@gmail.com>:
> With call-by-name parameters and a general friendliness towards "create your
> own control flow constructs" I don't think it's that bizarre.
>
> Is it too late to rename the assignment operator to "foo := 3"?    ;-)
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> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:46 AM, martin odersky <martin.odersky@epfl.ch>
> wrote:
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>> >
>> Normally, I'd agree with you, David. But I think that passing a
>> side-effecting expression of unit into a function is sufficiently
>> bizarre that in practice f(x = e) will always be read as a named
>> parameter.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>  -- Martin
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