> > I suggest that the requirement be:
> >
> > print "There are Dogs::->num_dogs() species of dogs.";
> >
> > I.e. use the unambiguous form of class method call.
>
> Uhhh... I never even knew that worked. With the exception of OO book
> authors, everyone's going to trip over that.
Not if they read Camel III, which points out that Class::->method() is
the *only* syntax that's guaranteed to work.
> I think the case of /\b[A-Z][\w:]*->[A-Z][\w:]*(/ in a string is
> infrequent enough that its not going to be a problem.
Your probably right. But then again, /\b[A-Z][\w:]*::->[A-Z][\w:]*(/ is
a string so infrequent that it's *never* going to be a problem ;-)
Damian
