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2 points by conanite 5816 days ago | link | parent

oops, no, I'm sorry. I didn't see what you were missing. The test is set up at the start of the test file, with

  (sref call* (fn (the-bobo size) (* the-bobo size)) 'bobo)
So

  (* b 3)
works where b is a 'bobo.

As for

  (thing!method arg1 argn)
it's true, when you write it that way, it feels more natural. At a first glance though, this means (thing 'method) must return a method-invoker, which then gets invoked with zero or more arguments. It seems like this would add complexity - instead of calling the method, we call to get the invoker and then call it. The question, as always, is whether the increase in readability merits the increase in complexity ... we'll see what happens I suppose.