On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 08:33:33AM -0400, Stephen P. Potter wrote:
> How about symbolic refs to function names?
>
> $a = $x ? "hop" : "skip";
> $b = $y ? "scotch" : "soda";
>
> $a.$b; # call one of hop.scotch, skip.scotch, hop.soda, skip.soda
5.005_03 and under required parens after the method reference
$obj->$meth_name();
5.6.0 appears to have removed that requirement, but I don't see why
that couldn't be required again in Perl 6 to disambiguate if needed.
> | Alternately, we can overload . to do a deref on (blessed?) references, and
> | concat otherwise.
>
> I think this would lead to hard to find bugs when someone mispelled
> something.
I think it would also throw Dan into convusive fits. Additionally, it
would make finding method calls lexically near impossible. I'd like
to keep Perl 6 refactorable as much as possible.
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