In his use.perl.org journal, Luke wrote:
To be fair, Damian responded to my query, but he didn't answer my
question. He gave more an example of how submethods are used, rather
than why they are used.
Subroutines are useful inside classes, for factoring class-specific
implementation details
On 10/28/05, Christopher D. Malon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 28, 2005, at 11:13 PM, Luke Palmer wrote:
Trying to think through the VectorSpace example, and a slightly
more complicated example (a Field), I'm starting to wonder whether
roles need to be parameterized somehow. (Maybe they
On 10/29/05, Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So we need a mechanism that is externally (i.e. from a class interface
point-of-view) a subroutine, but internally has the features of a method (i.e.
has an invocant). Since it's externally sub-like but internally method-like,
we call this
Luke,
On Oct 29, 2005, at 3:42 PM, Luke Palmer wrote:
Another thing that scares me with the utility sub point of view
follows:
class Foo {
method process_data($data) {
$.help_process_data($data);
}
submethod help_process_data($data) {
