Re: Colon Operator: Superfluous Syntax?

[Brian Hagerty <Brian.Hagerty@...>]

Javier Guerra wrote:
> and what would be the advantage of doing it your way?

Two advantages, of tenuous merit.

I believe my suggested implementation of self would (slightly) 
improve function call performance by obviating the need to push 
an extra "hidden" argument on the stack.  This is based on my 
belief that typical function call implementations already 
contain the calling object's / caller's reference in the larger 
call frame.  That is, the "self" information is already on the 
stack, if not in the argument list. -- So this is not much of a 
performance hit in any case.

The other "advantage" is really the religious point about style. 
 And that is that the language could be more uniform without 
the colon operator -- i.e. "even more austere".  But that's not 
really an advantage, that's a choice about style and (highly 
subjective) readability.

// Brian