Re: RFC 161 (v2) OO Integration/Migration Path

2000-08-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Nathan Torkington wrote: > Perl6 RFC Librarian writes: > > For example, rather than: > > > > my int $intVal = 0; > > > > you would say: > > my $intVal = 0; > > $intVal->asInt; > > Or possibly even: > > my $invVal->asInt = 0; > > for simplicity. > > Do you mean that whe

Re: RFC 161 (v2) OO Integration/Migration Path

2000-08-28 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:28 AM 8/28/00 -0700, Steve Fink wrote: >Dan Sugalski wrote: > > > > If the vtable stuff goes into the core perl engine (and it probably will, > > barring performance issues), then what could happen in the > > > > my Foo $bar; > > > > case would

Re: RFC 161 (v4) Everything in Perl becomes an object.

2000-09-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
cts until we get to >500-line programs It's not gonna. Worst case the optimizer will turn this: $len = $foo->length; into this: $len = length($foo); Sort of the way we handle double-quoted string interpolation now. Dan -----

Re: Stupid Newbie Question

2001-11-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
quot;it's like this"--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk

Re: Stupid Newbie Question

2001-11-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
ship card?) What, you mean being able to override the + function for a variable, complete with method dispatch depending on the types of the variables on both sides of the +? Yup ;) Dan --"it's like t

Re: Stupid Newbie Question

2001-11-09 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 06:48 AM 11/9/2001 +, Piers Cawley wrote: >Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > At 04:21 PM 11/8/2001 -0800, John Rudd wrote: > >>So, does this mean my other heart's desire of operator overloading might > >>be coming forth? (I know, I k