[Swift-devel] Nasty multiparameter function hack.

[Ben Clifford]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Mihael Hategan wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 08:32 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> > However, where the parameter is a variable:
> > 
> >   @f(x)
> > 
> > this turned into a Karajan function call with two parameters, a 'variable' 
> > and a 'path'. In the above case, the variable is x and the path is empty.
> > 
> > In the case of @f(x.y) then the variable would be x and the path would be 
> > y.
> 
> That's kinda wrong:
> @f(x) should be f(getfield(x, path="")) which can be reduced to f(x) and
> @f(x.y) should be f(getfield(x, path="y")).
> 
> Consequently:
> @strcat("x", x) -> strcat("x", x)
> @strcat("x", x.y) -> strcat("x", getfield(x, path="y"))

Does getfield still pass through enough info for something like 
@filename(x.y) to work?

I haven't really done anything with getfield ever.

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