Dan, I don't immediately see how per object/class dispatch
control helps to make multimethods pluggable. Perhaps a
multimethod (a set of methods) is a class/object? Is there
a general mop for dispatch?
More generally:
> Yes. Ordinary subroutine overloading (like that offered by C++)
> certainly
> If the dispatcher is drop-in replacable, what does its
> interface look like?
I'm thinking this is either deep in mop territory, or a probably quite
straightforward set of decisions about dispatch tables, depending
on how you look at things.
I found just one relevant occurence of 'mop' in perl
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:25:17AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> Who said that my source file handle was seekable?
The problem is, it appears DATA is only opened if there's an __END__
or __DATA__ tag. I don't remember it working this way...
*shrug* We can fix that easy. :)
--
Michael G. Sc
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:04:00AM -0400, John Porter wrote:
> Brent Dax wrote:
> > > use Fcntl qw(:seek);
> > > seek DATA, 0, SEEK_SET;
> > > @code = ;
> >
> > IMHO, that's too hackish--just reading that doesn't make what you're
> > doing obvious.
>
> It also can only get the main p
From: Nicholas Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2001, Brent Dax wrote:
> > From: Michael G Schwern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > # On Fri, Aug 31, 2001, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
> > # > Access to the source code.
> > #
> > # Already got that.
> > #
> > # use Fcntl qw(:seek);
> Perl6 should ship with a simple utility that shows all modules a program
> uses, and all modules those modules use.
Presumably with the caveat that no usage list can be generated for any
missing modules.
> > > Access to the source code.
> >
> > Particularly comments and POD.
>
> Cool--I'd suggest a special $*CODE filehandle, to match $*DATA
First, take a look at RFC 79, which I think addresses the wants here.
My thoughts on how it should work are a little different now, but I
guess it's too la
Brent Dax wrote:
> > use Fcntl qw(:seek);
> > seek DATA, 0, SEEK_SET;
> > @code = ;
>
> IMHO, that's too hackish--just reading that doesn't make what you're
> doing obvious.
It also can only get the main program, not any of the modules it loads.
--
John Porter
