Moritz Lenz moritz-at-casella.verplant.org |Perl 6| wrote:
S12 says (in the context of classes):my method think (Brain $self: $thought) (Such methods are completely invisible to ordinary method calls, and are in fact called with a different syntax that uses ! in place of the . character. See below.) And later on, in the context of roles: my method !foo ... my method foo ... # same, but &foo is aliased to &!foo Am I right in assuming that the second example is valid only for roles? I find this different syntax for classes and roles quite confusing. Is it intended that way? I'd welcome a uniform syntax. Cheers, Moritz
I've asked about "my method foo" too, but had no response. I would not think anything is unique to roles, rather, stuff defined in a role is remembered partly-digested and spilled into a class later. You might want to look at what I've got thus far in my specdoc at <http://www.dlugosz.com/Perl6/>. I plan on updating that section soon, but you get the idea of the formalism I'm bringing to it.
--John
