Larry,
Thanks for the quick reply.
On Mar 23, 2005, at 1:42 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
This is very much bound up in the meaning of .foo in various contexts, which we haven't actually nailed down yet. For the moment I would recommend writing all code with explicit $self.foo or $_.foo until we figure that out. I rather suspect that .foo is going to end up always meaning the current invocant rather than current topic.
Personally I think that it should always mean the current invocant. I know that as I have been porting over some OO modules to perl6/pugs (see http://svn.perl.org/perl6/pugs/trunk/modules/ for details), that it just "feels" right for it to be the invocant and not the current topic. It feels somewhat like the implicit 'this' in Java, which at first I did not like, but after I got tired of typing 'this.' all the time I came to appreciate.
Anyway, just my 2 cents on the matter.
Thanks again for the quick reply.
Stevan
