Piers Cawley writes:
> Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Also, the "standard library", however large or small that will be, will
> > definitely be mutable at runtime. There'll be none of that Java "you
> > can't subclass String, because we think you shouldn't" crap.
>
> Great. But will it also be possible to add methods (or modify them)
> to an existing class at runtime?
Parrot supports it, so I don't see why Perl wouldn't.
> You only have to look at a Smalltalk image to see packages adding
> helper methods to Object and the like (better to add a do nothing
> method to Object that find yourself doing C<$thing.do_that if
> $thing.can('do_that')> all the time...)
Agreed completely. Plus, there are some cool things you can do by
mutating methods of Object, like implementing auto-rollback variables.
(A6 C<let foo()> behavior).
Luke
