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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: (Sort of) newbie trying to understand "array.length"
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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
<snip>
>   Critics of the dot notation say that »attribute( pointer )«
>   aligns better with mathematical notation because »attribute«
>   usually is a fixed name, while »pointer« can vary.
>
>   However, in »o.f( x, y )«, it is made clear that the
>   late-binding (run-time polymorphism) only happens with
>   respect to »o«, not to the other arguments.
>
>   Some languages, such as Smalltalk or Lisp, do not use dot
>   notation. IIRC, Smalltalk does not have multi-methods,
>   while CLOS might have them. For multimethods, »f( o, x, y )«
>   might better agree with the semantics.

The obvious extension of the attribute(pointer) syntax the a method call
would be f(o)(x, y) which looks fine to me.  (Not that I mind the dot
notation either.)

-- 
Ben.