Brent Dax writes:
: Are we still gonna be able to pick what we call the current instance?
: From previous programming languages, I'm a lot more comfortable with $me
: or $this than $self. (Yeah, it's a little thing, but it's something I
: *liked* about Perl 5's OO--it showed how you had flexibility. And I
: *like* that flexibility, dammit!) Perhaps:
:
: method bar {
: ...
: }
:
: will assume $self, but:
:
: method bar($me : *@_) {
: ...
: }
:
: will use $me instead.
That is the approach I currently favor. (Though I'd probably leave
out the space in front of the colon.) And it has the advantage that
$me is automatically assumed to be read only.
I think the other kind of proposal:
method bar (*@_) {
my $me is mumble;
is just going back to the sort of inside-out declarations we're trying
to get away from. I'd even prefer a pragma over that.
Larry
