Re: easier duck typing in .can

2006-06-17 Thread Sam Vilain
Yuval Kogman wrote: Since CANDO is a multimethod, IMHO this can be safely extended to allow: $object.can(Class); $object.can(Role); to better support duck typing. Why would you not use .does or .isa there? Are you wanting this to go through all of the Class/Role's methods

Re: [unclassified] Re: resumable exceptions

2006-06-17 Thread Larry Wall
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 10:51:24PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote: : Anyway, as passionate as I was about resumption, or at least making it : not impossible to implement resumption, at the next ANSI meeting the : terminate-only camp made compelling arguments. Well, interestingly, I used to be in

RE: Name of this wiki

2006-06-17 Thread Conrad Schneiker
> Larry Wall profounded: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 11:51:09AM +0930, Tom Lanyon wrote: > : On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 10:12:12PM -0400, Matt Todd wrote: > : > I really like these. I think you're on to something. I'm > definitely in > : > favor of Momi Wiki, or just Momi. > : > : Just 'Momi' sounds goo

Re: [unclassified] Re: resumable exceptions

2006-06-17 Thread John M. Dlugosz
I was involved in the C++ standardization process, and argued for resumption as opposed to termination only in exceptions. I was somewhat of a pioneer, implementing C++ exceptions for my team to use before commercial compilers had them. After all, why start a new project with an old paradigm?

Using Perl in QA departments

2006-06-17 Thread Gabor Szabo
If anybody is interested on this list, the slides and the examples of my 2 days course are available here: http://www.szabgab.com/perl_in_test_automation.html regards Gabor

easier duck typing in .can

2006-06-17 Thread Yuval Kogman
Synopsis 12 specifies that: .can interrogates any class package's CANDO multimethod for names that are to be considered autoloadable methods in the class but aside from that is just a name -> method iterator mapping. Since CANDO is a multimethod, IMHO this can be safely e