At 02:52 PM 10/1/00 -0400, John Porter wrote:
>I believe that mentioning an attribute of a variable is
>really a method call on the variable's underlying object --
>which, in perl6, can have user-definable behavior.
>Where some language use dot or arrow syntax, perl uses colon.
>Very isomorphic.
>
>And that means any anonymous structure is available for
>attributification via normal deref syntax:
>
> @{ $a[1] }:base(2); # but I've never seen a script that did this...
>
> %{ $hr }:keys( qw( name age strangeness ) );
>
>And globals too:
>
> @known_objects:size(100);
>
>Oo:
>
> for my $i ( 0 .. @a:last_index ) { # deprecate $#a
>
>
>Please tell me I'm right! :-)
I'd be happy to join this cause if the parser can disambiguate this use of
: vs its appearance in the trinary operator. Bearing in mind that a highly
desirable extension would be user-defined variable attributes.
--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
