On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 19:40 -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 05:56:12PM -0800, David Storrs wrote:
> : Actually, I guess they would have to be...can you apply a role to a > : bare type? > : > : my int does SelectOutputFile; # I would expect this to fail > : my Int does SelectOutputFile; # I would expect this to work > The latter always works. The former can probably be made to work in > the case of roles that only add methods and don't change the storage > representation, since the vtable is associated with the class and > not the object. I could make the argument that it should be possible to decorate an object with a role. If that means generating a new anonymous class just to have a vtable to munge, so be it. -- c
