Andre van Tonder <xxxxxx@later.het.brown.edu> writes:

>  Again, the comparison breaks down with examples like:
>
>   class Foo {
>     int a;
>     int b;
>
>     public int foo-a () { return a }
>     public int foo-b () { return b }
>
>     Foo(int a, int b) {
>       int common = gcd (a, b);
>       if (b == 0)
>         { this.a = 1;
>           this.b = 0 }
>       else
>         { this.a = a / common;
>           this.b = b / common}
>     }
>   }
>
>   which cannot currently be accomodated with the draft suggestion.

Something got lost in the thread here:  It started with your trying to
argue that *your* suggestion was similar to Java, not that the draft
was dissimilar to it.  The latter just happened to hold for the
particular example.  This Java code has shape similar to your example,
but it still does things by name rather than by position.

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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