Am Donnerstag, 25. Januar 2007 06:23 schrieb Matt Diephouse: > > This change is just adding more mess to object construction and argument > > passing. > > > > I've made several attempts to unify object construction with new calling > > convs > > but no one seems to be listening :-( > > That was a change I made (with Allison's approval). The purpose of the > change was to eliminate differences between PMCs and objects. It's > confusing for PMCs and objects and objects that subclass PMCs to behave > differently. Given that PMCs can have two different init functions, how > does it make sense for objects to have only one? Does providing an init > function for a subclass of a PMC override both of the parent's init > functions?
The differences were confusing. More so are they now. All the C<new> variants are confusing. I've proposed to use Parrot calling conventions to pass args and just call one method for object creation, e.g. in http://groups.google.at/group/perl.perl6.internals/browse_frm/thread/e68dc0a0a96585b7/076502809495f8e2?lnk=st&q=parrot+instantiate+toetsch&rnum=5#076502809495f8e2 leo
