On 10 Mar 2015, at 08:25, Nicolai Hess <nicolaihess@web.de> wrote:
2015-03-09 22:09 GMT+01:00 Sean P. DeNigris <sean@clipperadams.com>: Marcus Denker-4 wrote
is x: (with colon) a valid inst var name ? no.
Why complicate the system by special-handling illegal variable names? Just let the incorrect x: become the just-as-incorrect x::, no? Or am I missing something?
No it is not about handling illegal variable names. The question is, what should #name: asMutator return 1. #name: because it is already a mutator 2. #name:: because it might be the mutator for variable "name:"
(2) is how it actually behaves, but because "name:" is not a valid instance variable name, returning #name:: does not makes sense, so I choose option (1).
+1
nicolai
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