Re: Objective C To Dylan

[Rob Myers <address@hidden>]

On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 10:00 PM, P T Withington wrote:

> On Thursday, Oct 24, 2002, at 16:40 US/Eastern, Rob Myers wrote:
>
>> 2. Method Naming.
>>
>> Objective-C methods use named parameters. For example:
>>
>> [myObject param1: varA param2: varB];
>> [myObject param1: varC];
>
> Wouldn't the 'C++' way be to name the methods:
>
> myObject$param1&param2 and myObject$param1?

This is true, and melange does something like this for struct field 
names if you don't ask it to shadow structs.

I did consider param1:param2:( myObject, varA, varB );, but I'm looking 
for something easy to remember and easy on the eyes for both Dylan and 
Obj-C programmers. If I was hoovering up methods before writing rather 
than just translating I could declare mangled names and map to them 
with macros, but I don't want to have to stay up that late. :-)

- Rob.