On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 09:32:50AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> >>>>> "John" == John Siracusa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> John> I don't like $ME either, but my alternative is probably even more
> John> blasphemous: use $self. "It usurps a variable name that has been legal for
> John> customer use in prior Perls!" you re-exclaim. Not if it only appears in a
> John> new-to-Perl-6 construct like:
>
> John> method get_polite_age(<neat stuff could go here>)
> John> {
> John> return ($self->age >= 40) ? 39 : $self->age;
> John> }
>
> Well, that I could support. Although having the p52p6 translator
> recognize which subs should really be methods might be a bit messy,
> and then it'd have to recognize any uses of $self for a proper $self,
> and not shift something into that, or whatever. :)
It would not have to. Any sub defined as 'sub' and called as a method
could be called using the current convention. Only those marked as methods
would have $ME (or what ever)
What I would like to see also is that if a sub marked as a method is
called as a sub, then this magical var is undef.
Graham.
