--- Michael Lazzaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > A lightweight, typedef-like mechanism behaves differently:
> >
> > class Foo is Bar;
> > typedef Baz is Bar;
> >
> > Foo.isa("Baz") == TRUE;
>
> Ah, I get it. But why would you want that -- treating Foo and Baz as
>
> synonymous?
Treating BAR and BAZ as synonymous. Coincidentally, Foo is Bar.
> Mind you, I'm not really against the idea, I'm just devil's
> advocating
> -- trying to think whether we really need the feature or whether we
> just _think_ we need it because we're all used to it from C, when in
> fact P6 will provide better ways of doing it. (?)
macro *defmacro($t1, @rest is variadic) is parsed(/<token> <token>+ ;/)
{
eval "macro *$t1 is parsed(/<null>/) { return @rest.join(' '); }";
}
defmacro Baz Bar;
m4, anyone?
=Austin
