On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 07:08:58PM -0800, Brent Dax wrote: > But when you know the type beforehand, there shouldn't *be* any > ambiguity. You can see the methods in that class, and you know how many > arguments the biggest implementation of a multimethod[1] takes. Just > assume that that's the one being called. > > Just to make things clear: > [ snip ] > $obj2.x $a, $b, $c; # OK, like $obj2.x($a, $b), $c > > I do *not* expect Perl to do the impossible or even the very difficult. > This isn't even very difficult.
What you continue to make clear to me is that this is a maintenance nightmare without the parentheses. Even rules like "always use the one with the biggest matching signature" don't help. What happens when a developer multies your method by adding another parameter? It seems to me that the simplest disambiguating rule is to require the parentheses on methods. -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
