At 2:21 PM -0800 12/20/03, Larry Wall wrote:
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 12:41:10PM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote:
: So what happens if more than one of the candidates is tagged as the
: default? The same thing as if none of them was? This could happen if
: both Predator and Pet have declared their
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 12:41:10PM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote:
: So what happens if more than one of the candidates is tagged as the
: default? The same thing as if none of them was? This could happen if
: both Predator and Pet have declared their 'feed' methods as the default.
Could blow up,
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Subject: [perl] Re: Object Order of Precedence (Was: Vocabulary)
Larry Wall wrote:
If DangerousPet doesn't define a feed method at all, then we might
dispatch
Joe Gottman writes:
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Subject: [perl] Re: Object Order of Precedence (Was: Vocabulary)
Larry Wall wrote:
If DangerousPet doesn't define a feed method
Luke Palmer wrote:
Joe Gottman writes:
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From: Jonathan Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 3:41 PM
Subject: [perl] Re: Object Order of Precedence (Was: Vocabulary)
Larry Wall wrote:
If DangerousPet doesn't define a feed
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:02:53PM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote:
: Larry Wall wrote:
: Jonathan Lang wrote:
: : Let's see if I've got this straight:
: :
: : role methods supercede inherited methods;
:
: But can defer via SUPER::
:
: : class methods supercede role methods;
:
: But can
Larry Wall writes:
But if you say something like:
class DangerousPet does Pet does Predator {
multi method feed ($x) {...}
}
then DangerousPet::feed is called only when multimethod dispatch
would have thrown an exception. Alternately, multi's will probably have
some way
Larry Wall wrote:
Jonathan Lang wrote:
: Let's see if I've got this straight:
:
: role methods supercede inherited methods;
But can defer via SUPER::
: class methods supercede role methods;
But can defer via ROLE:: or some such.
Check, and check. Of course, SUPER:: works well in
