I wrote my first perl6 over the weekend, needing some help on #perl6. And now after finishing some lunchtime thoughts I wanted to post here on my main sticking point.
If one wants to set a private attribute, one must define a "submethod BUILD". If one wants to use any argument in the constructor other than a public attribute (positional OR named other than an attribute name), one must define a "method new( ... )". And if one wants to do both, then the initialization code must be spread between "method new ( ... )" and "submethod BUILD". One fix posited on #perl6 was a "blessall" method that would act like "bless", but also allow setting private attributes. That would be a solution... but... how about going all the way and allowing "bless" to set private attributes? I wasn't looking when the decisions were made about bless, and I can understand an argument about not letting private attributes leak out. On the other hand, if it's OK for a new "blessall", why not for "bless" itself instead? -y
