What I meant to say was more along the lines of "if this could be done as a
macro, does it need to be a pragma, or could it be part of a standard macro
package?"
And, secondly, "if this *is* part of a standard macro package, wouldn't it
be cool to let it shove arbitrary
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Hildo Biersma wrote:
Don't impose your religion on others. If people want 'this' instead of
'self', that should be just fine.
It should be pretty easy to define the appropriate $ME-reader like this:
use ObjectStyle 'self';
or
use ObjectStyle 'Java';
for
sub do_stuff {
my $self = self;
$self-{STATE}-{something} = @_;
}
sub error {
carp @_ if self-config('VerboseErrors');
}
I've never really seen anything like this before in other languages (Is that
good or bad?). The closest is Java's odd use of the
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:27:01 -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
It's a pain if you want to support both function-oriented and
object-oriented calling forms, as CGI.pm does. For example, you can use
both of these:
print header;
print $r-header;
with CGI.pm. Now you need a self_of_default special
