On Sun May 03 13:51:11 2009, s1n wrote:
> I ran into a bug where I couldn't refer to 'self' when it logically made
> sense I could:
>
> (15:33:15) s1n: rakudo: class A { has %.H = (a => -> $x { self.c($x) });
I don't see anything in the spec that indicates that the body of the
class declaration has a lexical 'self', or that it should be pre-set to
the type object (formerly protoobject). AFAICT 'self' is only defined
for method bodies, and it's the invocant of the method.
If that's not the case, we probably need a spec update. In the
meantime, I'm changing the title of this ticket to more accurately
reflect the question at hand.
Also, S12 indicates that C<self> is a function, whereas we currently
implement it as a lexical. If it needs to be a function, we can
probably arrange that. (And perhaps it's a contextual lookup of some sort.)
Thanks,
Pm
