I've always liked how VB allowed you to define instance methods.
Basically a more elegant way of doing callbacks, plus allows some
structure within your callbacks. Will Perl6 allow this (Perl5 sortof did,
but since the bless way of doing things is going away...)
Perhaps...
class foo {...}
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 21:38, root wrote:
I've always liked how VB allowed you to define instance methods.
Basically a more elegant way of doing callbacks, plus allows some
structure within your callbacks. Will Perl6 allow this (Perl5 sortof did,
but since the bless way of doing things is
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 07:38:12PM -0600, root wrote:
#BTW, is there some standard way of creating instances
#now?
Class::Classless and Class::Prototyped off the top of my head.
On Thursday 16 May 2002 01:13 pm, David Whipp wrote:
Aaron Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
You might not be able to REASONABLY get a length, so you return
undef. In your documentation, you advise users not to take the length,
but just dive right in and fetch the element you want,
On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 16:13, David Whipp wrote:
Aaron Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
You might not be able to REASONABLY get a length, so you return
undef. In your documentation, you advise users not to take the length,
but just dive right in and fetch the element you want,
On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 16:07, Mike Lambert wrote:
Languages like perl can't easily be inlined, since subs may be
redefined at any time. If a sub's a leaf sub you can detect changes
before calling safely, but if it's not a leaf sub you run into the
potential issue of having the sub
At 06:11 PM 5/16/2002 -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote:
On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 16:07, Mike Lambert wrote:
There're three stages:
1. compile time -- When a module or program is byte-coded
2. load time -- When byte-code is loaded off of disk
3. run time -- When the program
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On Thu, 16 May 2002 12:36:42
Miko O'Sullivan wrote:
SUMMARY
Arrays should always have known lengths because that's what arrays do. This
requirement is enforced culturally, not programmatically.
I totally agree that this should be enforced culturally. I think that the way a tied
