Larry Wall larry-at-wall.org |Perl 6| wrote:
All default expressions to any parameter are defined to run in the context that assumes any parameters to their left are already bound, so you may safely depend on self already being set.
OK, so there is no technical reason why it can't work that way.But, self the keyword is not $self the parameter (it only works "in" methods), and there are issues of trust. So I need to describe it properly.
--John
