Simon Cozens writes:
: On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:32:24PM -0400, John Porter wrote:
: > a syntactic loop control iterator object
:
: I surely hope you're joking.
It could certainly be argued that anything you can put a label on is an
object by some definition or other. And certainly it turns into a kind
of parse tree object to which the label can be pasted. And while the
parse tree object is hopefully totally static, the use of it in a dynamic
context may require keeping track of some amount of state, which we might
deign to keep in an object of some sort or other.
Whether there's any point in making these internal objects visible to
the user is another matter indeed. It's possible to view Perl 5 as
full of objects that the user has no direct access to. Just because
Perl 6 might give more access to some of these internal objects does
not mean that most people can't go blissfully on their way in ignorance
of the underlying mechanisms.
larry
