Hi Tod,
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Tod Hagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All,
>
> Shouldn't
>
> sub empty : method {
> my ($attr, $reader, $writer) = @_;
> return sub {
> scalar @{$reader->($_[0])} ? 1 : 0
> };
> }
>
> instead say:
>
> scalar @{$reader->($_[0])} ? 0 : 1
Yes. Unfortunately it's way too late to break back-compat. :(
It's documented somewhere in the dist that the empty method is
deprecated because of exactly this.
> Also, I'm unfamiliar with the ': method' business after the subroutine
> name, can someone explain?
That's to tell Perl to not generate the warning "Ambiguous call
resolved as CORE::foo". perldoc attributes has more information.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tod
Shawn
