On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Carl M. Johnson <cmjohnson.mailinglist@gmail.com> wrote:
On Oct 13, 2011, at 1:50 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
I'm much happier with the keyword - "postdef" provides a strong hint to what it does, and also ties it in with the following function definition.
My 2 cents: postdef and @ seem to be a good pair, unless someone has a better name.
I also think that could work, but I do find 'def' an appealing alternative to '@' because it's a much better intuition pump that the thing it refers to is the object currently being defined. The '@', however, wouldn't be hard to remember once you knew about it, works nicely for both functions and classes, stands out visually even without syntax highlighting and is hard to beat for brevity. I suspect this is a case where a bigger set of example use cases and lining up the two alternatives for each one would be useful. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia