On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Nathan Wiger wrote:
Camel-3 shows some interesting hints of what's been proposed for my
declarations:
my type $var :attribute = $value;
And we all know that you can use my to declare a group of variables:
my($x, $y, $z);
Here's the issues:
1. How do
Piers Cawley wrote:
By declaring a variable as being one of many types you throw away any
possible compile time optimizations that may be possible (unless you
add the restriction that said types have a common interface...)
Note that a possible syntax for doing what you want could be:
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Nathan Wiger wrote:
my int ($x, $y), char $z; # mix classes
my int ($x, $y) :64bit, char $z :long; # and attrs
nit
my (int ($x, $y), char $z);
my (int ($x, $y) :64bit, char $z :long);
/nit
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Bryan C. Warnock
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Nathan Wiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It seems potentially useful to be able to say:
my Dog, Cat $fluffy;
As a way to say "$fluffy can be either a Dog or a Cat". Since variables
are prefixed, anything comma-separated up to the variable is an
alternate class for that variable:
Eurgh.
I don't have time to RFC this now, as I'm leaving soon for several days.
So here's a brain dump.
Camel-3 shows some interesting hints of what's been proposed for my
declarations:
my type $var :attribute = $value;
And we all know that you can use my to declare a group of variables:
