Re: Edge case: incongruent roles

2006-10-14 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 07:56:24AM -0700, Jonathan Lang wrote: : Right. That _almost_ takes care of the issue; the only part left : untouched is what happens if you have two methods that can only be : disambiguated by the invocant's role, and you aren't told what the : role is. For instance: : :

Re: Edge case: incongruent roles

2006-10-14 Thread Jonathan Lang
Larry Wall wrote: Jonathan Lang wrote: : Trey Harris wrote: : >All three objects happen to be Baz's, yes. But the client code doesn't : >see them that way; the first snippet wants a Foo, the second wants a Bar. : >They should get what they expect, or Baz can't be said to "do" either. : : In prin

Re: Synposis 26 - Documentation [alpha draft]

2006-10-14 Thread Damian Conway
Brent wrote: I've probably been hanging around Web standards nazis for too long, but can we get a separate code to mark the title of a document that can't be linked to (say, a book) along the lines of HTML's tag? Hmm. Maybe. Care to nominate a letter for that? C<>, I<>, T<>, and E<> are