On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, John Williams wrote:
: I think everyone agrees that some sort of simple accessor syntax will be
: included (instead of the getX/setX hack). But will accessors _look_ like
: attributes or methods?
:
: # look like methods
: object.foo($value);
:
: # look like
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Larry Wall wrote:
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, John Williams wrote:
: Personally, I hope they look like attributes.
They will, outside the class anyway. Inside it's $.foo.
: But if they do, the perl5
: lvalue subs are not the way to do it. Why? Because an lvalue sub returns
On Sunday, October 6, 2002, at 12:57 AM, Noah White wrote:
Note that an alternate definition of private is often used, as
follows:
A private attribute is an attribute whose scope is restricted
such that
it may be accessed only within the class in which it has been
declared,
At 4:29 PM -0600 10/5/02, John Williams wrote:
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
Dan Sugalski wrote:
There won't be any direct access to attributes outside class methods
of the class that defines the attributes, unless Larry changes his
mind in a big way. (And, honestly,
Dan Sugalski wrote:
There won't be any direct access to attributes outside class methods
of the class that defines the attributes, unless Larry changes his
mind in a big way. (And, honestly, probably not even then) Instead
it'll all be accessed via lvalue methods. If an attribute is exposed
(Disclaimer: My purpose in proposing this is not to recommend it, but
to document whether the idea should be endorsed, or shot down, and any
proposed canonical syntax. Note that the later implications of these
choices are quite substantial. Please discuss!)
[Draft Proposal: Attributes
This all looks good to me. I seem to have gone off on a tangent about
slots, so I've mercifally changed the subject.
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 04:39:40PM -0700, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
[CONS]
- Making publicly accessible attributes at all is considered Bad Form
in most OO methodologies
At 4:39 PM -0700 10/4/02, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
Under the principle of TMTOWTDI, perl allows public attributes
within a class. However, you must explicitly declare an attribute
to be public.
There won't be any direct access to attributes outside class methods
of the class that defines the
