Is any of this legal?
class car {
...
method make ($self: $make, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) returns(car) {
return $self but role {
has $.make = $make;
method model($self:
All IIRC/AFAIK:
Aaron Sherman skribis 2005-04-26 9:25 (-0400):
method make ($self: $make, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) returns(car) {
returns car;
(And write classes ucfirst, please)
return $self but role {
does role { ... }
It certainly seems very
standard for a factory type method
(I think I said generator before, oops), but in most languages, a
factory either has to return from a pre-defined tree of classes, or has
to build its own mechanism. In Perl 6, closures combined with anonymous
roles let us build this functionality trivially, on the fly
Juerd writes:
(And write classes ucfirst, please)
return $self but role {
does role { ... }
Nope, Aaron was right here, since you're not trying to mutate $self;
you're just trying to return a new $self with other capabilities.
It certainly seems very
