Re: Possible language extension: colon-notation in an expression as shorthand for instance-specific method

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Mark Tomczak wrote:
> I picked the IRC channel's collective brain on this issue, and we 
> discussed the performance impact aspects of this design. But I also 
> wanted to ask the mailing-list community: is there 
> any syntactical reason that I would want to avoid allowing 
> myInstance:instanceMethod to become a valid construct outside of a 
> function declaration (as, for instance, a shorthand alias for 
> constructing the closure as I described)? I'm nervous about getting 
> halfway down the road of trying out this modification and then running 
> headlong into a language ambiguity.
The irc channel's brain pickings (that I'm aware of, anyway) are 
summarized over at http://lua-users.org/wiki/MethodCurry .