Re: RFC from a newbie: Method References

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Michael Fowler wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 11:23:23PM -0800, Ian Hickson wrote:
> > So: What I would love to see in Perl 6 is a way of having a single scalar
> > that holds a reference to a particular instance's method.
> > 
> > Is there any chance that this would be considered? Or is this already
> > possible in Perl 5 but I have missed it?
> 
> How about:
>     my $foo = Foo->create();
>     my $methodref = sub { $foo->method(@_) };
> 
>     &$methodref();
> 

Oooooh!

Dude.

I am not worthy.

Thanks!!!!!

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