Revisiting field references

[John Rose]

On Jun 4, 2019, at 4:22 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> For prototyping purposes, I wouldn't try to use the same token; that's just making your life harder.  Pick something easily parsable, even if its hideous.

In fact, it's often beneficial to adopt a __ClearlyHideousSyntax for
prototyping or semantic discussions, because it sends the clear
signal that we are not painting the syntax bikeshed yet.  If you
pick a merely ugly syntax, someone is liable to waste bandwidth
trying to fix it for you.  No shame, we've all done it, but let's not…