On 5/14/05, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the moment $?SELF is the only canonical form, though the invocant > is also in $_ at least until it's rebound. Any other forms will > probably involve a pragma or macro, since there is no consensus on > a shortcut.
Er, isn't that a mistake that we don't want to make again? Admittedly it's a fairly small one compared to the other OO mistakes in Perl 5, but it's in the same class. This is one of those TMTOWDTI, TNOWTDI[1] situations. Now, I don't really care if we make the obvious way o.foo, ^foo, \foo/, or whatever, but I think it's important that we pick one. If there's no short way to write it, people will start making them, and every time you pick up a new piece of code, you have to relearn how to say "I". Luke
