On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 09:43:29 -0700 Miller Puckette mpuckett@man104-1.ucsd.edu wrote:
I think it might be unwise... The "$" meanings in objects and messages are actually the same; the text is simply interpeted in different contexts.
Well, I think what we may be hitting here is the frequent gap between programmer and end-user perceptions. By saying that they "are actually the same", I suspect that you're coming from seeing that they share the same code (I'm not sure, not being quite able to interpret the code itself). However, from the viewpoint of someone using the program without knowledge of the innards of the source, they are quite different and behave quite differently. I believe I've seen this issue come up a few times; in such cases, I've found that changing the documentation tends to be less effective than enhancing the interface.