On 03/20/2015 03:40 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com > <mailto:tom.brow...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Why do you say that is not a method? The first line says > > > Sorry, somehow I managed to misread that. > > So you want what I have already said twice: the accessor `self.elem`. > If you want to access the variable directly for some reason, you use > the form `$.elem`. (By the way, that shadowing is generally bad form, > and not just in Perl 6. It makes code confusing to read)
Actually, $.elem is just short for $(self.elem); if you want direct access to the variable you'd write $!elem. Also, an "indirect method call" would be self."$elem", self.$elem is basically equivalent to $elem(self), which is why you get the "cannot find method postcircumfix:<( )> error, as whatever's in $elem is probably not callable like that Regards - Timo
