On 2008-01-03 Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Perl 5 couldn't really solve this and programmers just had to "know"
> that all methods were implicitly variadic. I seem to recall that
> Larry had an idea about how to specify a signature (I could be
> misremembering and I can't find the response).
Hmmm. Could it have been with the C<:()> construct?
So that we might one day say
$object.HOW.can('bark',:(Int))
I feel, though, that saying
$object.HOW.can('bark',\(42))
would be more useful, since the dispatcher unifies signatures with
captures, and after all I want to know if I can invoke a method called
C<bark> with the number 42.
By the way, what happened to C<<method bark(Int $a where { $a < 10
})>> ? I can't find it in the Synopses ( http://perlcabal.org/syn/ )
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