On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:44:52AM -0400, Piers Cawley wrote: > Adam Turoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > As it *appears* today, regular dispatching and multimethod dispatching > > are going to be wired into the langauge (as appropriate). Runtime > > dispatch behavior will continue to be supported, including things like > > AUTOLOADER and the like. > > Whoah! The wired in dispatch rules are going to be runtime dispatch > rules, but with potential compile time short circuiting where the > compiler knows enough stuff (frankly, I'm not sure I'd expect to see > compile time short circuiting in perl 6.0, maybe in 6.001 or whatever)
That sounds about right. Perl as we know it is runtime dispatched, so adding compiletime short circuiting sounds like a job for a new pragma or declaration. 6.000+epsilon sounds like the right time to introduce this feature. Z.
