>Johan Vromans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> =head1 ABSTRACT
>>
>> Perl distinguishes named operators and functions. For Perl6, this
>> disctinction can be dropped.
>Will this then work?
> sub foo {
> my $func = shift;
> &$func(@_);
> }
> foo(\&print, "foo");
> foo("print", "foo");
> foo(\&CORE::print, "foo");
> foo("CORE::print", "foo");
A fine question. When Larry and Sarathy and I last went round on this,
it really appeared that we could do this (for all values of "do") because
of loss of compile-time context-coercion (née prototype) template information.
For example, consider sub length ($). You aren't going to get that right
when called indirectly.
Then again, Tim Bunce once had an intriguing proposal for addressing
run-time prototype^Wcontext-coercion issues. You can read it at
http://www.perl.com/pub/language/misc/bunce.html
But I don't think Larry was completely (or, perhaps, even partially)
fond of it.
--tom
