Hi,
Thomas Sandlaà wrote:
> the main reason for this mail: aliasing $_ in methods to the first
> invocant would badly mix these two concepts!
I think so, too.
I'd like to see:
$.foo # attribute of $?SELF
@.foo # ditto
%.foo # ditto
&.foo # method of $?SELF
.foo # method of $?SELF
$_.foo # method of $_
This means that we've to write two additional letters in given {} and
map {} and somesuch...
@foo.map:{ $_.method > 42 }
given $foo { $_.foo(42); $_.bar(23) }
...but it also means that
* "." as secondary sigil ($.foo, @.foo, %.foo, &.foo) is
consistent (always refers to $?SELF), and
* you don't have to use $self in methods again only because
you are (implicitly or explicitly) binding $_ to something
else.
IMHO, this advantages are worth the two extra chars.
--Ingo
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