RE: Perl 6 - Cheerleaders?

2001-10-28 Thread Damian Conway
Brent asked: # Well, I'm not a Damian, but I play one on perl6-language. ;-) Well, then, where's a *real* Damian? :^) The Real Damian is the Damian inside each of us. You need to get in touch with your *own* inner Damian. ;-) I assume we're going to recycle 'my' and

Re: Perl 6 - Cheerleaders?

2001-10-28 Thread Piers Cawley
Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brent told us: All these Star Trek references are threatening to make my warp core breach... :^) Too much information. Look, I'm sorry, okay? I only finished up the article with a Trek reference because, whilst I could see Larry as Giles, I

RE: Perl 6 - Cheerleaders?

2001-10-28 Thread Damian Conway
Aaron wrote: Several questions come up. * If $.foo is like the Perl5 $self-{foo}, Except (as I'm sure you know) that Perl 6 class instantiations aren't hashes, and their attributes aren't hash entries. how do I do the Perl5 $self-foo? .foo() * Is foo in this

Re: Perl 6 - Cheerleaders?

2001-10-28 Thread John Siracusa
On 10/28/01 7:03 PM, Damian Conway wrote: Brent asked: I assume we're going to recycle 'my' and 'our' to be 'instance' and 'class'--is that correct? That's what I'm proposing. So should I start practicing my typos for instance now? Insatance instancae instance. Mmmm... ;P I favour the

Re: Perl 6 - Cheerleaders?

2001-10-28 Thread John Siracusa
On 10/28/01 7:57 PM, Damian Conway wrote: method foo is lvalue { return $foo; Any word on automagical creation of these suckers? No, not as a module, but built-in. I don't think it's too crazy to build *some* sort of sensible attribute accessor

Re: Perl 6 - Cheerleaders?

2001-10-28 Thread schwern
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 08:36:31PM -0500, John Siracusa wrote: On 10/28/01 7:57 PM, Damian Conway wrote: method foo is lvalue { return $foo; Any word on automagical creation of these suckers? No, not as a module, but built-in. They're called Slots