On Sunday, March 16, 2003, at 05:09 PM, David Storrs wrote:
==QUESTION
- Page 8 says "In some languages, all methods are multimethods." I
believe that Java is one of these. Is that right and what are some
others? (This is really just curiousity.)
==/
Doesn't C++ work this way? Also I believe P
Greetings all,
Ok, it took me several days to get through A6, and I'm not caught up
on all the mail yet (though I've tried to skim so I don't repeat
someone else's question). I'm left with a bunch of questions; can
anyone answer the following:
==QUESTION
- Page 8 says "In some languages, all m
Nick --
I've been thinking of it like this:
class int isa intlike; # and isa value or whatever
class Int isa intlike; # and isa Object or whatever
class num isa numlike; # and isa value or whatever
class Num isa numlike; # and isa Object or whatever
...
class Scalar isa intlike, nu
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 10:46:31 +, Larry Wall wrote:
> If you say
>
> $foo.isa(Even)
>
> it doesn't just check to see if $foo is a member of class Int, but it also
> checks the constraints on type Even, and returns false unless $foo is an even
> integer.
>
> We could still call Even a clas
