Re: How to implement both object->method and module::function interface?

2000-08-17 Thread David L. Nicol
Graham Barr wrote: > > This would > > appear largely transparent to the user, right up until they tried to do > > isa() or ref() tests on the object. > > But that is the catch. Now if the language was to give us a way to support > both in the same package in an efficient way, so much the better

Re: Will subroutine signatures apply to methods in Perl6

2001-08-21 Thread David L. Nicol
Garrett Goebel wrote: > > Any word from on high whether subroutine signatures will apply to methods in > Perl6? There's RFC128 and RFC97... but they both mostly dodge the issue of > methods. > > The absense of method signatures for specifying required, optional, and > named parameters... not to