On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 01:39:43PM -0400, Austin Hastings wrote:
: I agree: classes have a chance to pre-specify the class
: signatures, and objects get a chance to dynamically agree to
: undertake method calls.
:
: The timeframe I was thinking of was object construction time.
I don't see the val
> -Original Message-
> From: Larry Wall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, 07 May, 2004 12:40 PM
> To: Perl6 Language
> Subject: Re: Specifying class interfaces with AUTOMETH
>
> : This seems an awkward way to implement dispatch, since the
> : price of using AUTOMETH is being able to
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 08:12:24PM -0400, Austin Hastings wrote:
: Apparently the AUTOMETH code will be invoked to determine what code matches
: a request. AUTOMETH will "return a reference to" a matching method. This
: implies that AUTOMETH is expected to resolve dispatch within the class --
: "He
Dan Sugalski wrote:
We can't devolve to isa checking under the hood, because there are
cases where a class can assert that it has a role without pulling in
the role externally. (Storable, for example, will be a likely thing
here as classes assert they do Storable without pulling in an external
