Re: Properties and stricture

[John Porter]

Michael G Schwern wrote:
> It will have to go for strict classes.  @ISA will have to be locked.

"strict classes"?


> my $meth = "foo";
> $obj->$meth();  # $obj->foo();
> 
> This definately can't work if $obj is of a class which is strongly
> typed.        

"strongly typed class"?



> This can still work with strong typing if:
>     1)  The class only plays with its own symbol table
>     2)  It does it at compile time.

I agree that an (optional) strong-typing mechanism would
be nice to have in perl6.  However, I don't think it
should not have a run-time component.
I.e. "strong typing can only be done at compile time".
We'll do what we can at compile time, but this is Perl...

-- 
John Porter