Why we will use obj$func() often

[Greg Ewing]

Mark Hahn wrote:
> What do you mean by keyword?  Which do you mean?
> 
> 1) outer x      # x is declared to come from outer scope
> 
> 2) outer.x      # outer is prefix replacing &
> 
> Form 1 is very non-P*thonic.  I was happy to get rid of the global keyword
> and I'd hate to see this one show up.

I was thinking of it as a direct replacement for &,
so that instead of

    &x = y + &z

you'd write

    outer x = y + outer z

But if you don't like the look of that, there's
nothing more to be said.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg