Thanks, yes that's one of the first approaches I looked at, but there's still that extra "does" step before you can say $x.tellall;
On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 2:39 PM, Curt Tilmes <c...@tilmes.org> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 5:30 PM Larry Wall <la...@wall.org> wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 11:40:13AM -0700, Joseph Brenner wrote: >> : Sounds good, thanks. >> >> Well, yes, *sounds* good. :-) >> >> Monkey patching is allowed but discouraged in Perl 6, because Ruby. >> > > Mixed in roles: > https://docs.perl6.org/language/objects#Mixins_of_roles > may be helpful as well. > > You can add a role not just to a class, but to an instance of any other > class. > > my $x = "something"; > say $x.WHAT; > role MyDebugRole { method mydebugthing { say "mydebugthing" } } > $x does MyDebugRole; > say $x.WHAT; > $x.mydebugthing; > > (Str) > (Str+{MyDebugRole}) > mydebugthing > > $x will totally act like it used to, but anywhere you like, now you can > call .mydebugthing() on it. > > Pretty cool. > > Curt > >
