--- Austin Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Then again, there are some very talented people
with a lot of free
time in the Perl community; I wouldn't count it
out.
That looked to me like a Damian troll, hoping that
DC would pop up
and
I was reading through E6 again, and noticed something a little
troubling:
sub part ([EMAIL PROTECTED] is rw) {...}
Well, Iof course @_ Cis rw! Otherwise we wouldn't be able to
Cshift things off of it. What was actually meant, I presume, is:
sub part ([EMAIL PROTECTED] of (Object is
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Next Apocalypse is objects, and that'll take time.
Objects are *worth* more time than a lot of the other topics.
Arguably, they're just as important as subroutines, in a modern
language.
Speaking of objects... are we going to have a built-in object
Jonadab the Unsightly One writes:
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Next Apocalypse is objects, and that'll take time.
Objects are *worth* more time than a lot of the other topics.
Arguably, they're just as important as subroutines, in a modern
language.
Speaking of objects...
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Luke Palmer wrote:
Also, the standard library, however large or small that will be, will
definitely be mutable at runtime. There'll be none of that Java you
can't subclass String, because we think you shouldn't crap.
Java's standard class library is a mishmash of things
