The Emporium
A developer walks into the National Property Access Emporium.
“I’d like some property access, please.”
“Certainly, sir. What kind?”
“Do you have any dot notation? obj.prop?”
“No sir. We use colon syntax here. obj:prop.”
“Bracket notation? obj['prop']?”
“That would be (get obj :prop), sir.”
“Optional chaining? obj?.nested?.deep?”
“For nil-safe access, might I recommend some-> from Chapter 13, sir?”
“How about Reflect.get?”
“We don’t stock that, sir. Never much call for it around here.”
“But it’s the single-most popular usage in the WORLD!”
“Sorry, sir.”
Astonished, the developer looks at the menu. Two items: obj:prop for static access, (get obj key) for dynamic access. Both are in stock. Both work. Neither requires a seventeen-page specification document to understand.
“That’s… actually all I need,” the developer says, with the slightly dazed expression of someone who has visited a property access establishment and actually found what they were looking for.