Markus Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> --On 22.08.2000 18:24 Uhr +0000 David L. Nicol wrote:
>
> >
> > Regardless of what its called, in a method called as a subroutine,
> > the variable could refer to the last instance of this kind of object
> > used by this thread.
>
> Hmm.... Does that mean if I once all $obj->method() and then afterwards
> somewhere else obj::method() then $ME or whatever it is called still holds
> $obj ? If yes, why? I can imagine _some_ cases where that's useful,
> especially if someone is sloppily mixing procedural and object oriented
> programming, but I can also imagine many more cases where it adds
> confusion.
>
> In my opinion the contents of $ME should allow to determine wether it was
> called as a procedure or as a method, the easiest way to do that is undef
> for procedure, object for method and classname for class methods.
Procedure reference for a procedure call please. It makes for some
nice wins with anonymous subroutines...
--
Piers
