At 11:42 AM +1000 5/11/02, Damian Conway wrote:
>Aaron Sherman asked:
>
>> > > sub get_bar() { .bar }
>> > > sub get_baz() { .baz }
>> > > sub set_baz($newbaz) { .baz = $newbaz }
>> >
>> >
>> > Close. They'd probably be implemented like this:
>> >
>> > method get_bar() { $.bar }
>> > method get_baz() { $.baz }
>> > method set_baz($newbaz) { $.baz = $newbaz }
>>
>> Wouldn't those be the same?
>
>Not quite. C<$.bar> is a direct access to the attribute. C<.bar> is a call
>to the accessor. There might well be performance issues.
>
>> ".bar" is the auto-created accessor for
>> "$.bar", so they should do the same thing, no?
>
>Presumably, but perhaps not quite as fast.
Right. I expect the method-style accessor to be slightly slower in
most cases. It may perhaps be optimized away in some cases, but I
wouldn't expect it, generally speaking.
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