On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 10:49:57AM -0700, Allison Randal wrote: > Both the old and new metamodels allow you to set and get an attribute > for a parent class that has the same name as an attribute in the child > class (Perl 6 and .NET both use this feature in different forms). The > old metamodel used this syntax: > ... > # Set the parent's attribute 'j' > setattribute obj, "Foo\0j", $P4 > > I really don't like the "Foo\0j" syntax on the last line: [...]
I've never liked that particular syntax. > We need a new syntax for the new metamodel. I'm thinking of: > > setattribute obj, ["Foo"], "j", $P4 +1 Pm
