There's no way to reference mixin method

[inossidabile]

Current implementation of referencer allows the . and # delimiters according to the class and instance methods. On the other side everything we receive from mixin is marked as a mixin method.

Inside referencer we do search through mixins. However delimeter-type filters will always reject the mixins methods. So there's totally no way to reference to mixin method. And that's just wrong.

[inossidabile]

I have a ready patch that allows addressing mixins methods like class methods (which I believe is quite natural). @netzpirat I need your opinion here before I modify the master :)

[inossidabile]

I've noticed that we use '?' sign to mark mixin-typed methods. This could be another solution for the referencer. Foo.Bar?method does not look very natural though 😳

[netzpirat]

Normal classes can have class and an instance method with the same name, thus we need the method prefix to distinguish them. However this is not the case for a mixin, since all methods are declared as instance methods. I have chosen the question mark for displaying the method signature to point out that we do not know whether the method will be used as class or instance method. I think we should allow all prefixes #, . and even ? to reference a mixin method, so the document author can add this semantics to the docs with his implementation knowledge.

[inossidabile]

I agree that we should allow both types of prefixes. However I vote against ?. I think this can be misused. You always know which type of extension you expect. There's no reason to define ? manually as well. If you don't mind I'll patch it with . or # support.

[netzpirat]

Thats perfectly fine. Thanks a lot.