On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Larry Wall wrote: : You can certainly drop it within the methods, : since there's also the accessor methods.
But I should point out that there's a semantic difference between $.foo and .foo, in that $.foo is guaranteed to get my copy of the attribute, while .foo might just go haring off after a virtual method in a subclass, if the subclass puts a wrapper method around this class's .foo method. Larry
