On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:47:15PM -0700, Dave Storrs wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2001, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> > Would you also advocate separate declarative syntax for variable
> > properties and value properties? That's where I think much confusion
> > will be.
>
> Yes, I would. What that syntax would be, I'm not so
> sure...although the following all have some appear:
>
> my $pi is constant; # compile time
> my $foo is now true; # run time
[ other examples elided ]
Or how about we just don't use "is" for run-time properties (which
look so much like attributes, that we should just call them that)
my $pi is constant = 3.14; # compile time
my Dog $spot; $spot.has_fleas(1); # run time
return 0.true(1); # INTEGER(0).true(1) ?
print 3.1415.pi(1); # NUMBER(3.1415).pi(1) ?
Granted, we lose the stacking that we had with "is" and properties of
constants look funny ...
-Scott
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