1 Identifiers

Sasha Koshka edited this page 2022-08-30 05:56:34 +00:00

In ARF, the member selection operator (.) is not an operator. It instead links multiple name tokens together to form what is called an identifier. For example:

io.println

...refers to the println member of the entity io.

Only name tokens can be used in identifiers. If a member of an object that results from another operation needs to be accessed, that object must first be assigned to a variable.

ARF does not have separate syntax for accessing a member of a pointer. The dot works either way, like in Go.

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