Re: The Declaration Approach (was: Some thoughts on the 'reveal' operator) Marc Stiegler (marcs@skyhunter.com)
Fri, 22 Oct 1999 10:14:59 -0700

Just as you allow abbreviation of define as def, how about abbreviating reveal as rev?

--marcs


From: Mark S. Miller <markm@caplet.com>
To: Bill Frantz <frantz@communities.com> Cc: <e-lang@eros-os.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 10:31 AM Subject: Re: The Declaration Approach (was: Some thoughts on the 'reveal' operator)

> At 10:20 AM 10/21/99 , Bill Frantz wrote:
> >Basically what we are trying to do is define procedures/methods with just
> >two types, VOID and EverythingElse. We want a special syntactic mark for
> >the EverythingElse case, to try to avoid human error.
>
> Yup, that's it exactly.
>
> I tried editing "reveal" in to some of my code, and I couldn't stand the
way it looks. I'm still inclined towards an operator-symbol of some sort, suggestions solicited. If no one has a better idea, I'm going to go with "=>".
>
>
> Cheers,
> --MarkM
>