On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 05:56:12PM -0800, David Storrs wrote: : On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 05:15:14PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: : > On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 02:20:47PM -0800, David Storrs wrote: : > : Yes, I know. That's what I meant by "...arrays are objects...(sort : > : > No, they're real objects. (Though it's .elems rather than .length, since : > we've banished the "l" word from our vocabulary.) : : Ah, ok. I've got to scrape up the tuits to go back and reread the : A&Es.
Bear in mind the As have [Update] sections but the Exegeses do not. The Ss should be relatively up-to-date though. : Actually, I guess they would have to be...can you apply a role to a : bare type? : : my int does SelectOutputFile; # I would expect this to fail : my Int does SelectOutputFile; # I would expect this to work The latter always works. The former can probably be made to work in the case of roles that only add methods and don't change the storage representation, since the vtable is associated with the class and not the object. :seet, er, I mean, Larry
