On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:41:54AM +1100, Damian Conway wrote: > Personally, I think the only reasonable way of resolving this is to > assume (as in the last paragraph above) that function calls in these > kinds of indeterminate contexts are always in list context.
So, even if the clash is Num vs Str context, we still run it under List context? Or is it their common ancestor, "Scalar"? On #perl6 Luke half-jokingly suggested running it under Num|Str context, but that is probably not going to fly. :) > The dispatch resolution process is described in A12, under "Calling via > Multiple Dispatch". It's close to what you describe above, except the > "local vs global" distinction is a little more complex, and the > final discrimination is via C<is default>, not via C<Code> object > creation sequence. Okay, I'll drop the Code creation order thing and make it raise a fatal error on ambiguity, then. Thanks! Thanks, /Autrijus/
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