Joe Gottman writes: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jonathan Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 3:41 PM > Subject: [perl] Re: Object Order of Precedence (Was: Vocabulary) > > > > Larry Wall wrote: > > > If DangerousPet doesn't define a feed method at all, then we might > > > dispatch to Pet and Predator as if their methods had an implicit > > > "multi". > > > > And the C<default> trait is the tie-breaker when several options are > > equally likely candidates (in terms of type information); OK. > > I'm a little leery about calling this trait "default". The problem is > that we are already using "default" as a keyword (see the switch statement), > and having a trait with the same name as a keyword might confuse users > and/or the compiler.
Perl's using a top-down compiler now, so it won't be looking for the keyword variant of C<default> after "is". "default" is sufficiently overloaded in English, and by context in Perl, that I don't think anyone will get confused. Not to say that other names for this trait aren't welcome. Luke
