Piers Cawley wrote:
=head1 ABSTRACT
The behaviour of the my Dog $spot syntax should simply be an
assertion of the invariant:
(!defined($spot) || (ref($spot) $spot-isa('Dog)))
Apart from the buglet that Damian pointed out, agree.
Instead of an implementation based on tie, I'd rather
Piers Cawley wrote:
=head1 ABSTRACT
Cmy Big::Long::Prefix::Class $object = Big::Long::Prefix::Class-Egtnew
is a pain in the bum to type. We should replace this with
use namespace 'Big::Long::Prefix';
my ::Class $object = ::Class-new;
This is a bit dangerous, since we can get
Piers Cawley wrote:
This is a bit dangerous, since we can get into ambiguities again.
If I have A::B::C::Foo, A::B::C::Bar, X::Y::Z::Foo and X::Y::Z::Bar,
I'd like to use shorthands for A::B::C's Foo and X::Y::Z's Bar at the
same time.
Well you can't. The patch that I pinched this
Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 11:04:26PM -0400, Michael Maraist wrote:
First greatly stylistic compatibilty. An inexperienced programmer would
see:
my Dog $spot = "Spot";
And become confused. It's totally unintuitive (at least so far as other
mainstream OO
