Mark,
To add to what I explained re: Class objects.
We have instance methods and class methods now in Perl 6, as well as
instance attributes and class attributes. The way I view Class objects
are as such:
A Class object is to class methods as an instance is to instance
methods.
Meaning
Mark,
On Aug 8, 2005, at 4:26 PM, Mark Reed wrote:
Coming in late here, but it seems odd to have an actual class called
"MetaClass". The meta-object protocols with which I am familiar have
the
concept of a metaclass (a class whose instances are themselves
classes), and
the class Class is su
Coming in late here, but it seems odd to have an actual class called
"MetaClass". The meta-object protocols with which I am familiar have the
concept of a metaclass (a class whose instances are themselves classes), and
the class Class is such a metaclass, but where does a class named MetaClass
fit
Hello All,
Since autrijus is now busy porting the P5 metamodel prototype into
Haskell for use in Pugs, I have decided to begin work on documenting
the Perl6::MetaModel prototype modules more thoroughly. The first step
I see in this is to define a Meta Object Protocol (aka - the stuff you
can
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 06:04:51PM +0200, "TSa (Thomas Sandla�)" wrote:
> Autrijus Tang wrote:
> >If I'm mistaken, please let me know, preferably by suggesting
> >new arrangements on the diagram. :-)
>
> Without judging your mistakes, here are my comments to the
> container picture.
>
> 1) I woul
HaloO,
Autrijus Tang wrote:
If I'm mistaken, please let me know, preferably by suggesting
new arrangements on the diagram. :-)
Without judging your mistakes, here are my comments to the
container picture.
1) I would move the ::name to the Pad level. The idea is
that ::name is some less spe
HaloO,
Autrijus Tang wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 09:27:00AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
Or maybe Any really does mean "Object" and we're just viewing our
hierarchy too strictly if we make every relationship "isa". That's one
thing that neither this formulation nor Thomas's are making very
cle
Anyone done any work on parsing Java interface definitions?
And, ideally, translating them into roughly equivalent Perl 6?
Tim.
HaloO,
Autrijus Tang wrote:
Yes, I'm aware of Theta's static where clauses, but Perl 6's where
clause is much more dynamic and almost always undecidable.
I know, but what does that buy the programmer? I see a type system
as support of a declarative programming style. Thus the dynamic part
of t
