On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Me wrote:
: We also need a signifier for class methods (assuming
: a distinction is made).
:
: Perhaps one could use an initial cap to indicate a class
: attribute/method:
:
: class foo {
: my $bar; # my is not used for attributes
: our $baz; # neither is our
: has qux; # instance attribute
: has Waldo; # class attribute
: method qwe; # instance method
: method Rty; # class method
: }
:
: or similar.
I prefer to keep caps distinctions conventional rather than mandatory.
Maybe class methods could be indicated as in Ruby:
method qwe; # instance method
method foo.rty; # class method
But that wouldn't work as well for an anonymous class...
And Perl 5 certainly gets away without making the distinction.
And confusing the two does help if you want to write constructors
that can clone objects as well as create new ones. Perhaps they
could be distinguished by the type of the invocant, if declared.
Larry
