On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 05:49:54PM -0500, Mark J. Reed wrote:
: I'm sure this has been hashed out somewhere I wasn't looking, but i
: would really prefer for pathname ops not to be mixed in to the Str
: class. Maybe they could be put in a Pathname subclass of Str, with a
: simple literal syntax or short unary operator to build such a thing
: from a string?
I've been thinking about that. One interesting ramification of
the current matching rule is that you could say either of:
"foo".io ~~ :r :x
or
"foo" ~~ :io(:r :x)
where .io is whatever your "casting" method of choice is for turning
a string into an object with the correct methods. Somehow I think
.filename is a bit too long, huffmanwise.
Larry
