Hello all,
I tried to search for this answer in AES12, but I did not see anything,
and a perl6.lang search just brought up the whole $_.method vs.
./method debate (which was too much to shlog through).
So, onto my question, I am wondering what are the valid scopes for
$?SELF and $?CLASS
Hi,
Stevan Little wrote:
So, onto my question, I am wondering what are the valid scopes for
$?SELF and $?CLASS.
Are these (magical) globals who only have bound values in certain
contexts? If that is so, what value do they have outside of a valid
context? undef? or is attempting
On Aug 17, 2005, at 2:28 PM, Ingo Blechschmidt wrote:
Hi,
Stevan Little wrote:
So, onto my question, I am wondering what are the valid scopes for
$?SELF and $?CLASS.
Are these (magical) globals who only have bound values in certain
contexts? If that is so, what value do they have outside
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 02:15:56PM -0400, Stevan Little wrote:
: So, onto my question, I am wondering what are the valid scopes for
: $?SELF and $?CLASS.
:
: Are these (magical) globals who only have bound values in certain
: contexts? If that is so, what value do they have outside of a valid
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 02:42:57PM -0400, Stevan Little wrote:
: I think in a Role, $?SELF would still be the invocant in a method, and
: $?CLASS would (eventually) bind to the class the role was composed
: into.
Yes, such things stay generic as long as they need to, and no longer.
: As for
Larry,
On Aug 17, 2005, at 2:53 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
: As for submethods, I see them like this:
:
: submethod foo () { ... }
:
: is really ..
:
: submethod foo () {
: next METHOD unless $?SELF ~~ $?CLASS;
: }
:
: At least that is how larry explained to me about a month ago.
Can't use ~~
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 06:26:02PM -0400, Stevan Little wrote:
: I am not sure if changing classes makes sense here so much as just
: providing a means for submethod calls to be forced. Currently the
: metamodels do this by allowing a special parameter in the first
: argument which is a flag to
