On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 05:25:28AM -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
Not an awful lot was said once this RFC was condensed down to
"Everything
becomes an object". I believe some implementation and conceptual
hurdles
exist which have discouraged more serious discussion. At the
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 12:16:36PM -0700, Matt Youell wrote:
I open to hearing your reasons. The biggest reason it wasn't withdrawn
is
because someone said "hey don't do that, here's why". So give me a "why"
already...
It doesn't feel right to me. It doesn't fe
Damian Conway wrote:
* invoke some other hierarchy of automagic methods
(REFIT? RESHAPE? MORPH? TRANSMOGRIFY?), or
REINCARNATE
Right now, the default behavior of perl is that un-initialized variables
are automatically undef. It would be weird to have to do explicit
assignment of an variable to say so.
You're right. And as another post mentioned, it's too much "magic". But It's
hard to come up with a comfortable
mainstream OO languages go). It looks like Dog could be a type of String
subclass.
That was my first thought as well. Besides, I'd rather type:
my Dog $spot("Spot");
Which says everything that needs to be said without any repetition, and it's
fairly intuitive.
As with the above, the
I've read over 161 again and I'm starting to see areas where I can clarify
things greatly. I apologize for the confusion. I'll make mods to the RFC in
the near future, after I get more feedback from you all.
Here are my goals as they probably should have been stated in the RFC:
- Concentrate
