Re: Perl 6 - Cheerleaders?

2001-10-28 Thread schwern
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 08:36:31PM -0500, John Siracusa wrote: > On 10/28/01 7:57 PM, Damian Conway wrote: > > method foo is lvalue { > > return $foo; > > Any word on automagical creation of these suckers? No, not as a module, but > built-in. They're called "

Re: Perl 6 - Cheerleaders?

2001-10-28 Thread John Siracusa
On 10/28/01 7:57 PM, Damian Conway wrote: > method foo is lvalue { > return $foo; Any word on automagical creation of these suckers? No, not as a module, but built-in. I don't think it's too crazy to build *some* sort of sensible attribute accessor auto-creat

Re: Perl 6 - Cheerleaders?

2001-10-28 Thread John Siracusa
On 10/28/01 7:03 PM, Damian Conway wrote: > Brent asked: >> I assume we're going to recycle 'my' and 'our' to be 'instance' and >> 'class'--is that correct? > > That's what I'm proposing. So should I start practicing my typos for "instance" now? Insatance instancae instance. Mmmm... ;P > I fa

RE: Perl 6 - Cheerleaders?

2001-10-28 Thread Damian Conway
Aaron wrote: > Several questions come up. > >* If $.foo is "like" the Perl5 $self->{foo}, Except (as I'm sure you know) that Perl 6 class instantiations aren't hashes, and their attributes aren't hash entries. > how do I do the Perl5 $self->foo? .foo() >* Is "fo

Re: Perl 6 - Cheerleaders?

2001-10-28 Thread Piers Cawley
Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brent told us: >> All these Star Trek references are threatening to make my warp core >> breach... :^) > > Too much information. Look, I'm sorry, okay? I only finished up the article with a Trek reference because, whilst I could see Larry as G

RE: Perl 6 - Cheerleaders?

2001-10-28 Thread Damian Conway
Brent asked: > # Well, I'm not a Damian, but I play one on perl6-language. ;-) > > Well, then, where's a *real* Damian? :^) The Real Damian is the Damian inside each of us. You need to get in touch with your *own* inner Damian. ;-) > I assume we're going to recycle 'my' and '