On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 08:57:45AM +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
> So far all I can think of for variable properties are actually compile time
> properties like constant etc.
> So I am left wondering how much of an issue this really will be ?
The beautiful and the horrible thing about Perl is that there isn't
really any such thing as "misuse" of a concept. While properties will
generally be used for what Damian talks about - sticking an extra bit of
data onto a value - people will use them to do strange and wonderful
things as well.
But then, we don't necessarily have to make the semantics particularly
transparent for pathological cases, because people doing that are
expected to know what they are doing.
--
>Almost any animal is capable learning a stimulus/response association,
>given enough repetition.
Experimental observation suggests that this isn't true if double-clicking
is involved. - Lionel, Malcolm Ray, asr.
