NetBeans support for proposed small language extensions

[John Rose]

On Jan 22, 2009, at 1:14 AM, Rémi Forax wrote:

> In that case, you don't need '#',  Dynamic."setcar!"(aCons, aValue)
> is not ambiguous. It will work with all qualified access to field and
> method.

That's what we did in Groovy; it works well there.  Java needs to be  
a little more formal, I think, and make a clear distinction between  
string literals and identifiers.

Restricting XIDs to qualified names is, I think, an unnatural  
restriction:  It does not follow use cases exactly enough.  In  
particular, it does not cover the use case I mentioned earlier, of  
defining exotic names (class/method/field) in Java, for access in  
other modules, where the spellings are formed by rules other than  
those governing (non-exotic) Java identifiers.

-- John
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