On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 04:02 -0600, Luke Palmer wrote:
> I am currently failing to see the need for a distinction between $.
> and $: . The only difference is in whether accessors are *generated*;
Not at all! There are numerous differences as described in A12:
* The attribute gets a "private" trait
* "we basically force people to document the private/public
distinction every place they reference $:x" -A12
* Prevents access to class variables (e.g. using "our") from
outside the class.
* %$obj notation includes private attributes when inside, but not
when outside the class
* Private variables use a different dispatcher.
