19 May
2016
19 May
'16
9 p.m.
Jeremy
writes:
AntC wrote I think you'll find rather a lot of those in existing code. So this is a code-breaking change.
Could you give an example of existing code that would break? This certainly wasn't what I had in mind.
Then what do you have in mind? "Do not break existing code" is not a design. "Syntaxless TDNR" is not a design; it's not even a thing. I've given you two lengthy replies, with pointers to further material. You've given me two sentences, and a snippet of code indistinguishable from gazillions of bare name function calls in existing code. I urge you (for the third time) to look at ORF Part 1: Duplicate Record Fields. See the type-directed resolution of label names. AntC