Re: Parrot and PGE will save the day (was Re: as if [Was: Selective reuse of storage in bless.] )

2006-01-21 Thread Audrey Tang (autrijus)
On 1/21/06, Rob Kinyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm making a few assumptions here: 1) Since PGE isn't part of Perl6 (because it's written in PIR), it can be used as the parser/lexer/etc. for any language, not just Perl6. Rules, like regexes, are essentially language neutral. So that's

Re: as if [Was: Selective reuse of storage in bless.]

2006-01-20 Thread Audrey Tang (autrijus)
On 1/21/06, Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But maybe all this is already possible in the current setup, if role ObjectFakeHash does Hash {...} role Object does ObjectFakeHash {...} class Hash does Hash {...} Yes, I think that's the way to go, as well as :coerceas for

Re: Class methods vs. Instance methods

2006-01-19 Thread Audrey Tang (autrijus)
On 1/19/06, Matt Fowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you provide a concrete example of the advantage of this approach please? Failing that can you try and expand on your gut feeling a bit? May or may not be of use, but Larry's view sounds a bit like reconcilling the (again considered