> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:26:28 -0500
> From: John Siracusa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> On 12/12/02 4:01 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 12:40:52PM -0600, Garrett Goebel wrote:
> > : So we'll _have_ to write $obj.*id when we mean $obj->UNIVERSAL::id;
> >
> > If you wish to be prec
> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 17:07:21 -0800
> From: Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> It's not clear what .can should return for a multimethod, either.
> You'd have be able to return results like: "yes int can mult, but
> only if the second argument is an int or num". Basically, .can
> has a bad syn
On 12/12/2002 4:01 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 12:40:52PM -0600, Garrett Goebel wrote:
: And what will:
:
: main.*can('foo')
:
: result in?
These days it's "Main", not "main". And it's a module, not a class,
so probably it fails, unless someone can think of something useful
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 01:50:37PM -0800, Brent Dax wrote:
: Larry Wall:
: # Hmm. Those don't really stand out enough. Maybe we should go with
: # OBJECT:: and GLOBAL:: just for a little more visual punch.
:
: How about CORE:: instead of GLOBAL::? This helps stick with tradition
: and minimize
Larry Wall:
# Hmm. Those don't really stand out enough. Maybe we should go with
# OBJECT:: and GLOBAL:: just for a little more visual punch.
How about CORE:: instead of GLOBAL::? This helps stick with tradition
and minimize the number of reserved packages.
# : And what will:
# :
# : main.*c
On 12/12/02 4:01 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 12:40:52PM -0600, Garrett Goebel wrote:
> : So we'll _have_ to write $obj.*id when we mean $obj->UNIVERSAL::id;
>
> If you wish to be precise, yes. But $a.id eq $b.id should work for most any
> class that uses the the term "id" in t
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 12:40:52PM -0600, Garrett Goebel wrote:
: John Siracusa wrote:
: > On 12/12/02 12:55 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
: > > As for namespace pollution and classes that use .id in Perl 5, I
: > > don't think it's going to be a big problem. Built-in identifiers
: > > do not have a requi
John Siracusa wrote:
> On 12/12/02 12:55 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
> > As for namespace pollution and classes that use .id in Perl 5, I
> > don't think it's going to be a big problem. Built-in identifiers
> > do not have a required prefix, but they have an optional prefix,
> > which is C<*>. I think
