Here's the original post where I gave the rationale for making the flags
work as they do:
<http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl6.internals/browse_thread/thread/5bbf1eab0133d467?tvc=2>
I'm comfortable with a modification saying that :vtable always gets the
'self' parameter like :method does. But without :method, :vtable should
not make an entry in the namespace of the class, or call 'add_method' on
the class. This results in simpler syntax for the cases where you only
want to override the vtable entry.
# method name is the same as vtable name
.sub get_string :method :vtable
# accessible as either $obj.stringify() or vtable
.sub stringify :method :vtable('get_string')
# accessible only as vtable
.sub get_string :vtable
# accessible only as vtable, and sub name ignored
.sub stringify :vtable('get_string')
Allison
