On Fri 11 May 2001 16:31, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:55:42AM +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
> > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 07:40:04PM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > > By far most of my use of typeglobs is making aliases, and then mostly
> > > for code:
> > >
> > > *color = \&colour;
> >
> > I would say that probably the most common use now for typeglobs is
> > from the IO:: modules. Which are created with gensym so they are
> > anonymous.
>
> Personally, I use typeglobs mostly to autogenerate repetitive methods
> without an autoloader:
>
> *method = $closure;
>
> but this should definately have a direct analogy in Perl 6 so I'm not
> worried.
I use it to check if formats exist, since there is no other way to do so
(except maybe an eval that dies :():
if (defined *{$::{$fmt}}{FORMAT}) {
local $~ = $fmt;
write;
}
but for perl6 it doesn't matter, cause formats will die anyway (even without
an eval :)
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