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Interpolation of method calls
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 14 Sep 2000
Version:1
Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=head1 ABSTRACT
Method calls should interpolate in double-quoted strings, and similar
locations.
This topic is actually covered, albeit far less in-depth and lumped with an
unrelated change, by Nathan Wiger's RFC 103, just in case you weren't aware.
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 03:57:41AM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Methods will be run in scalar context. A method which returns a single sc
I would suggest that anyone want to contribute to this discussion should
first read the thread about the addition of this pragma to perl5 in
the perl5-porters archives
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/cgi-bin/w3glimpse/perl5-porters?query=use+namespace+pragma&errors=0&case=on&maxfiles=100&maxlines=30
Graham Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I would suggest that anyone want to contribute to this discussion should
> first read the thread about the addition of this pragma to perl5 in
> the perl5-porters archives
>
>
>http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/cgi-bin/w3glimpse/perl5-porters?query=use+namespa
Perl6 RFC Librarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>
> =head1 TITLE
>
> C is just an assertion
>
> =head1 VERSION
>
> Maintainer: Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 13th September 2000
> Mailing List: [EMA
Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Perl6 RFC Librarian writes:
> > I therefore propose that C comes to mean that C<$spot>
> > is restricted to being either undefined or a reference to a C
> > object (or any subclasses of Dog). Simply having this implicit
> > assertion can be useful t
Nathan Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Nathan Torkington wrote:
> >
> > Yes! I mentioned the hypothetical
> > use strict 'types';
> > which would require all variables assigned to/from an object, and
> > all variables upon which method calls are made, to be typed like
> > this. Then the
Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:43:43PM -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> > The behaviour of the syntax should simply be an
> > assertion of the invariant:
> >
> >(!defined($spot) || (ref($spot) && $spot->isa('Dog)))
>
> What about the current
> This topic is actually covered, albeit far less in-depth and lumped with an
> unrelated change, by Nathan Wiger's RFC 103, just in case you weren't aware.
Yeah, I've got to split those up. I was trying cut down on the flood of
RFC's that poor Larry has to sift through :-(, but they are both com
Nathan Wiger wrote:
>
> > use namespace 'Big::Long::Prefix';
> > my ::Class $object = ::Class->new;
>
> Assuming repairing :: precedence is a reality I don't think this
> proposal buys us anything.
...That being said, I'm not necessarily against it. I'm
just against bloat. I hadn't paid
Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>print "Today's weather will be $weather->temp degrees and sunny.";
>
>This does not DWIM. Instead of interpolating C<$weather->temp> as a method
>call, it comes out as C<$weather.'->temp'> and is usually followed immediately
>by the questio
Piers Cawley writes:
> TBH, I'm not sure I want to go too far down that road in this RFC. And
> tbh they seem more like internals issues to me. The runtime behaviour
> this change grants is good enough for me and I don't want to see the
> proposal bogged down in flamage about strict types. Of cour
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 07:49:32AM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> > > print 'Today\'s weather will be '.join($", $weather->temp()).
> > > ' degrees and sunny.';
> > >
> > > However if temp() calls wantarray(), the result will be FALSE (scalar).
>
> I think what he's trying to get at i
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=head1 TITLE
Objects should have builtin stringifying STRING method
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Nathan Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 06 Aug 2000
Last Modified: 14 Sep 2000
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On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:19:38PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > package Dog;
> > use fields qw(this night up);
> >
> > my Dog $ph = [];
> > $ph->{this} = "that";
>
> That works? I thought you had to do:
>
> my Dog $self = f
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=head1 TITLE
Interpolation of method calls
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 14 Sep 2000
Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Number: 222
Version: 1
Status: Developing
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First of all, I think this is a great idea
On 14 Sep 2000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> Are there any contexts besides double quotes ("", qq{}, <<"EOF") where this
> need be applied? What about inside regexes? And if so, left and/or right
> hand side?
Regexes are enough like double quoted str
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Objects : Hierarchical calls to initializers and destructors
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 1 September 2000
Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Number: 189
Version
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Objects : Rationalizing C, C, and C
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 14 September 2000
Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Number: 224
Version: 1
Status: Developing
Piers wrote:
> I'm kind of tempted to look at adding another pragma to go with 'use
> base' along the lines of:
>
> use implements 'Interface';
>
> Which is almost entirely like C but with
> 'Interface' consisting of nothing but:
>
>
> package Interfac
At 08:13 AM 9/15/00 +1100, Damian Conway wrote:
>Piers wrote:
>
>> I'm kind of tempted to look at adding another pragma to go with 'use
>> base' along the lines of:
>>
>> use implements 'Interface';
>>
>> Which is almost entirely like C but with
>> 'Interface' cons
>
> Method calls should interpolate in double-quoted strings, and similar
> locations.
>
> print "Today's weather will be $weather->temp degrees and sunny.";
A possibility that does not appear in RFC222.1 is to put tho whole
accessor expression inside curlies:
print "Today's weath
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 06:37:22PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
> A possibility that does not appear in RFC222.1 is to put tho whole
> accessor expression inside curlies:
>
> print "Today's weather will be ${weather->temp} degrees and sunny.";
>
> which would follow the "You want something
> =head2 The C method
> =head3 The C method
Hey! You left out the alternative names NEW / RENEW and BLESS / REBLESS
that we all like! :-(
-Nate
> > =head2 The C method
> > =head3 The C method
>
> Hey! You left out the alternative names NEW / RENEW and BLESS / REBLESS
> that we all like! :-(
Oops. You're correct. I will rectify that.
Damian
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=head1 TITLE
Interpolation of method calls
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 14 Sep 2000
Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Number: 222
Version: 1
Status: Developing
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