On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:29:32AM -0500, Tanton Gibbs wrote: : Properties have bothered me, but for a different reason. It appears that : everyone's answer to everything is "make it a property!"
Yes, properties should generally be a last resort, not a first resort. : Properties are just strange to comprehend...they are like hidden attributes : that are squirreled away until you least expect them...then Think of them as creating a singleton class with extra attributes. : they pop up and bite you. I've never gotten the warm fuzzies from : properties, new ones just appear out of thin air and I feel like they : are the kitchen sink feature of Perl6 They're more like a safety valve feature for when your class system just doesn't get you from here to there. : (along with grammar rewrites...in : which you can make your one character program make your morning toast for : you if you decide to rewrite the grammar). Well, technically you have to at least have a "use x;" at the front to switch to the x grammar. I suppose you could pass -Mx on the command line though... Larry
