On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 10:08:33PM -0500, Joseph Ryan wrote: : Larry Wall wrote: : : >On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 09:08:31AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: : >: Nope. If a language wants to provide get/set methods for class : >: attributes it needs to create those methods at compilation time. : > : >For Perl 6 it's a single method that might be lvaluable depending on : >the declaration of the attribute. : > : > : : Right, but the compiler should be able to figure that out and emit : the proper code.
Yes, but it'd be nice not to force the compiler to generate a heavy proxy object for every lvaluable accessor to something that already knows how to fetch and store. We just need to make sure that the attribute can serve as its own proxy. That means the interface to an attribute should be identical to the interface to a variable, once you've taken a reference to it. We're trying to make a big deal of the notion that you can use an "is rw" method call anywhere you can use a variable. It'd just be nice if that didn't suck overly much. Larry
