Re: [ANNOUNCE] Perl6 OO Cookbook, v0.1

2002-10-10 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Chris Dutton wrote: : Wasn't "class MyClass;" supposed to work along the line of Perl5's : "package MyClass;" and make everything following that statement the : definition of MyClass? Yes, though we're thinking of limiting that construct to the front of a file, along with "m

Re: Object Instantiation (Was: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Perl6 OO Cookbook, v0.1)

2002-10-10 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Michael Lazzaro wrote: : On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 11:23 AM, John Williams wrote: : > my $obj = MyClass(...); : > : > This seems to assume that objects have a default method if you treat : > them : > like a subroutine. Kinda tcl-ish, but I don't recall anything li

Object Instantiation (Was: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Perl6 OO Cookbook, v0.1)

2002-10-10 Thread Michael Lazzaro
On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 11:23 AM, John Williams wrote: > my $obj = MyClass(...); > > This seems to assume that objects have a default method if you treat > them > like a subroutine. Kinda tcl-ish, but I don't recall anything like > this > in the apocalypes. > > my $obj = MyClass;

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Perl6 OO Cookbook, v0.1

2002-10-10 Thread John Williams
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Michael Lazzaro wrote: > PLEASE contribute to this document! Email me with suggestions, "yes" > or "no" votes on recipe approaches, info on philosophies or best-guess > syntax, etc., or discuss them here on perl6-language. Very nice. I hope this evolves into a useful perl6

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Perl6 OO Cookbook, v0.1

2002-10-10 Thread Michael Lazzaro
On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 02:33 AM, Angel Faus wrote: > Just a silly note: >> Recipe 1.9: Using Subroutines as Objects > I think it was said that the way to avoid the ambiguity here is to add > & to sub name. Thanks, applied. MikeL

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Perl6 OO Cookbook, v0.1

2002-10-10 Thread Michael Lazzaro
On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 07:54 PM, Chris Dutton wrote: > One first thing I notice while I'm supposed to be doing homework. :-) > > Wasn't "class MyClass;" supposed to work along the line of Perl5's > "package MyClass;" and make everything following that statement the > definition of

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Perl6 OO Cookbook, v0.1

2002-10-10 Thread Angel Faus
Hi, Many thanks Michael, this is very useful, really. I had lost all the OO discussion and this document is very helpful. I really like the part of context transformations, I hope something like this gets in. Just a silly note: > Recipe 1.9: Using Subroutines as Objects > > Problem: > You w

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Perl6 OO Cookbook, v0.1

2002-10-10 Thread Chris Dutton
One first thing I notice while I'm supposed to be doing homework. :-) Wasn't "class MyClass;" supposed to work along the line of Perl5's "package MyClass;" and make everything following that statement the definition of MyClass?