[E-Lang] get, set, and dot

[Marc Stiegler]

How deliciously petulant :-)

In fact, I don't think any of us were ever proposing a syntax in which these
syntaxes did anything except assign the maker object to the new variable :-)

--marcs


> > MarcS wrote:
> > > def myThing := thingMaker
> > > #versus
> > > def myThing := newThing
> >
> > If, as I suggest, E also got rid of the "optional ()" sugar, then this
> > problem would go away. It would then be obvious that neither of these
> > expressions could possibly be calling a method.
>
>
> You mean those statements above could be _invoking_ the methods
> `thingMaker' and `newThing', respectively!?  Ack!
>
>
> They look very much to me like simply assigning the name `myThing' to
> refer to the same thing (function) that `thingMaker' refers to.
>
> Regards,
>
> Petulant Python Programmer