Quick standard questionnaire, marks from 0 to 10, 5=neutral,
1. Clarity of proposal? 2. New idea? 3. Do opportunities for using it arise often? 4. Will it improve clarity of coding? 5. Efficiency? 6. Attractiveness of implementation?
My ratings:
10, 0 (the OP himself claimed to have proposed this before April 2016 [1]), 8, 10, 5, 2 (prefer the way suggested in [2]).
Cloud Wu has pointed out the start of the previous thread; my references also come from there.
That time, only the three of us endorsed the idea. Maybe its time has now come.
I’m not sure of the clarity of “v.v:x.y:a.b:name(args)” .. my head spins when tings get that deeply nested. However, I do agree that a:b.c(args) does make sense, so +1 to that.