Larry Wall wrote:
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 04:51:28PM +0000, Jonathan Worthington wrote:
: More interesting is that, for Perl 6,
: we also need to override the MRO on a by-method-call basis - you can
: change the dispatch order at the call site!
I wouldn't worry about that at all. I imagine such a construct
would simply turn into a direct sub call to the alternate dispatcher.
Aha, and that dispatcher can find the method thanks to all of the
metaclass stuff. Makes sense - looks like Parrot can punt on directly
providing for this construct then. :-)
Jonathan