On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
: I like that idea:
:
: class SomeClass {
: method class_method ( Class $class : ... ) { ... }
: method instance_method ( SomeClass $self : ... ) { ... }
: method dont_care_method ( $self : ... ) { ... }
: }
:
: Or will 'Class' actually be CLASS by analogy with HASH, ARRAY etc?
I'm not sure we're sticking with the all-uppercase built-in types.
They're kind of ugly, and we keep running into boundary cases.
So I think the built-in class types will start with an initial cap,
and the built-in primitive types will be all lowercase. So a general
polymorphic integer object is "Int", while a low-level, C-like integer
is "int". (An array of "int" is guaranteed to be stored compactly,
for instance.)
And I suspect it would make some people happy to turn class UNIVERSAL
into class Object.
Larry
