> > The use invocant was proposed as a way to maintain backwards
> > compatibility and yet give everyone the invocant access syntax he
> > or she personally favours.
>
> ...while also giving the compiler enough information to allow such
> invocant access to execute in an optimized manner...right? C'mon,
> I'm dying here thinking that all this (admittedly cool) stuff is
> gonna end up giving Perl 6 even more OO overhead than Perl 5!
Use invocant won't add any runtime overhead. In fact it might save a smidgeon.
> (What was it in the current edition..."up to 20x slower"? *sigh*)
Out by a factor of 10! I said "20 to 50 percent slower".
> I'm also a bit concerned about readability and interoperability of
> "Your Objects" vs. "My Objects." I guess invocant directives are
> self-documenting and should not cause any problems, functionally.
I think they would *improve* readability. Certainly over $_[0], and
even over:
sub method {
my ($self, @args) = @_;
...
}
I'm *forever* writing that and just it clutters up the code.
Damian
