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- Subject: Re: Colon Operator: Superfluous Syntax?
- From: Javier Guerra <javier@...>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:32:05 -0500
On Thursday 15 March 2007, Brian Hagerty wrote:
> What I was suggesting, though, is that the colon operator in Lua
> is a by product of making the same "hidden argument"
> implementation choice that was used in the original
> pre-processor constrained C++ & Obj-C implementations. -- And
> that the "hidden argument" pattern could be avoided by accessing
> caller context and identity that is found elsewhere in the call
> frame (i.e. and not in the stack of proper arguments).
and what would be the advantage of doing it your way?
--
Javier
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