Re: Long chains of objects (aka tables)

[Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@...>]

On Sunday, May 18, 2014, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@trms.com> wrote:
> > All alternatives presented thus far are less clear than either option. The
> > present syntax only suffers from being extremely verbose (and in the above
> > example, 3 local lookups and 9 field lookups vs 1 / 3 for the success case)
> > and thus arguably less clear.
>
> Hey, that's not true, I'm a big fan of the __div/__idiv suggestion. It
> even LOOKS like navigating a hierarchy.
>
> /s/ Adam

Yes. Actually, I agree that it is, as well. 

The global namespace requirement makes me nervous enough to put it in the same box though.