Re: Proposal for a standard way of defining custom operators in Lua

[Jay Carlson <nop@...>]

On Jul 27, 2013, at 4:03 PM, Mark Hamburg wrote:

> On Jul 24, 2013, at 11:33 AM, Leo Romanoff <romixlev@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> dst <- msg1 <- msg2 <-msg3 vs send(send(send(dst, msg1), msg2), msg3)
> 
> But that could also be:
> 
> dst:send( msg1 )
>    :send( msg2 )
>    :send( msg3 )

If you're working in an environment with people who think imperatively, Smalltalk has a good syntax:

  dst msg1;
    msg2;
    msg3.

The semicolon means "keep sending messages to the original object" which is nice for imperative-style code where people don't always return self.

Smalltalk has mostly arbitrary infix operators too.

Jay