design: adds an initial design for impl blocks #5580
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| ## Variations/Future extensions | ||
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| - Could move the `self` name into the impl block header `impl (self : T) {}`, to get even closer to the OO notation. Might give the wrong impression that closures are involved. |
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Probably not any more confusing than the using parameters though
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Yeah, I thought about that as I was writing the paragraph. But then I thought I don't have a good argument for why we can't also allow empty, or multi argument lists. But that feels more and more like code obfuscation...
impl () ...
impl (self : Nat, other : Int)
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Another thought: Maybe calling it a "methods" block would help with intuition. |
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