Re: Capture Object: why no verb?

2006-04-22 Thread Dave Whipp
Audrey Tang wrote: Hm, Perl 6 actually has two different ways of putting Capture to some Code object... Following yesterday's P6AST draft I'll call them Call and Apply respectively: moose($obj: 1, 2); # this is Call moose.($obj: 1, 2); # this is Apply elk(named =

Re: Capture Object: why no verb?

2006-04-22 Thread Audrey Tang
Dave Whipp wrote: Also, I'm a bit confused By the idea that the invocant is obtained by a scalar dereference, because I know that arrays and hashes can be invocants, too. E.g. @a.pop. So, If I do: my $args = \(@a:); my $b = $$args; # @a as a scalar my @c = @$args; # empty list

Re: Capture Object: why no verb?

2006-04-17 Thread Audrey Tang
Dave Whipp wrote: Perhaps I'm not fully groking the abstraction of the capture-object, but it seems to me that there should be a slot in it for the method. For dispatch, all three things are needed (invocant, method, args); so if you're going to put two of them in one object, then maybe the