On 5/17/05, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 10:10:22PM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote:
> : Is the final level ($z and $w) participating in the MMD at all
> : as tiebreakers? Luke mentioned that in all levels but the final
> : one, Manhattan distance (sum of inheritance deltas of each invs
> : to the expected types) is used, but on the final level, leftmost
> : tiebreaking is used. Is that the case? If yes, why? :)
>
> I don't recall ever saying anything like that, so that part of it
> is presumably speculative on Luke's part. I can't say I like it.
Just for the folks not following along on IRC, I don't think I implied
that. But Autrijus apparently inferred it :-). Anyway, there is no
MMD whatsoever on the final level, so that:
multi sub foo(Foo: Bar: Baz) {...}
multi sub foo(Foo: Bar: Quux) {...} # illegal redefinition
Luke
