On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 09:21:13PM +0100, Smylers wrote: : Damian Conway writes: : : > Here's the first draft (documented in Pod 6, of course ;-). : > : > =head3 Ambient aliases : > : > The C<A<>> formatting code specifies an B<alias to an ambient : > antecedent>. : : Please can you explain the reasoning for choosing antecedent, rather : than successor?
I think having to pick either one or the other is likely a design smell. Maybe it would be better to have predeclared extractors than to have a search strategy baked half-heartedly into A<>. Larry
