On 1/25/06, Jonathan Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Larry Wall wrote:
But my hunch is that it's
a deep tagmemic/metaphorical problem we're trying to solve here.
Such issues arise whenever you start making statements of the form
I want to use an A as if it were a B. The problem is much
On 1/26/06, Stevan Little [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually this might not be a bad approach in this case. Take this for
instance:
method foo (Foo $self, $key) {
((Hash) $self){$key}
}
The syntax is ugly, but it makes what you are doing more explicit. I
would also think that in most
On 1/26/06, Rob Kinyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 1/26/06, Stevan Little [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually this might not be a bad approach in this case. Take this for
instance:
method foo (Foo $self, $key) {
((Hash) $self){$key}
}
The syntax is ugly, but it makes what you
On 1/26/06, Stevan Little [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If there is need to treat something as a Hash, then provide it with a
postcircumfix{} and leave it at that. It's highly unlikely that you
will want to add Hash-like behavior to something that already has a
postcircumfix{} because it
On 1/26/06, Rob Kinyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 1/26/06, Stevan Little [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If there is need to treat something as a Hash, then provide it with a
postcircumfix{} and leave it at that. It's highly unlikely that you
will want to add Hash-like behavior to something
