Transcript and Dot Notation

[Dan Shafer]

Just for the record, I didn't bring this up again. Judy Perry did. I
just moved the discussion to a new thread and offered my opinion.


On 2/24/06, Thomas McGrath III <3mcgrath at adelphia.net> wrote:
> Nooooooooooooooooo not this again................
>
> Why does he keep bringing this up?
>
>
> Just poking fun,
>
> Tom
>
> I can read dot but have never really 'liked' it.
>
> On Feb 24, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:
>
> > I seem to have a knack for starting discussion threads that are
> > probably just close enough to being on topic to avoid their immediate
> > crushing by Listmom Heather and yet generate significant amounts of
> > message traffic for which some people here probably wish I would just
> > shut up or go away. Preferably both.
> >
> > But Judy Perry, in the thread about Bugzilla that I started yesterday,
> > said something that I thought ought to spawn a new thread, so here it
> > is.
> >
> > She said, "Lingo went to c.dot.syntax.hell in a very short fashion...
> > Please don't
> > let Transcript follow behind Lingo!"
> >
> > I am an object-oriented programmer by training and disposition. Every
> > single object oriented programming language that I've used (and I have
> > admittedly not used them all) with the single exception of Smalltalk
> > (which I actually think got it right) uses dot notation. Java.
> > JavaScript. Lingo. Ruby. Python. All of them. It is an accepted
> > convention in OO languages where it is essential to identify methods
> > and attributes with object namespaces.
> >
> > So if Transcript does go object-oriented -- and I hope and believe it
> > will, though it may be an alternative fork rather than a forced switch
> > -- I hope it *does* in fact adopt dot notation so that all of us who
> > have trained our brains to think in those terms when we create and
> > program with objects will e comfortable doing so.
> >
> > FWIW.
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