Moritz Lenz moritz-at-casella.verplant.org |Perl 6| wrote:
S12 says (in the context of classes):
my method think (Brain $self: $thought)
(Such methods are completely invisible to ordinary method calls, and are
in fact called with a different syntax that uses ! in place of the .
character.
Kealey, Martin, ihug-NZ Martin.Kealey-at-vodafone.com |Perl 6| wrote:
In Java, "final" is used to denote both a *class* that can't change (extend),
and *value* that can't change (a constant member of the class).
Got it: on a value it means readonly.
--John
Brandon Allbery allbery-at-kf8nh.com |Perl 6| wrote:
S06/Lvalue subroutines: "Lvalue subroutines return a proxy object
that can be assigned to. (...)"
S13/Methods: "Setter methods that expect the new value as an argument
do not fall into the well-behaved category, however."
When I take the
I wrote:
> > Overloading "final" was Java's rather inept attempt to
> > define objects with value semantics rather than container semantics
John M. Dlugosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can you tell me more about that, or point to something?
Alas I can't point to anything, it's just a personal c
S06/Lvalue subroutines: "Lvalue subroutines return a proxy object
that can be assigned to. (...)"
S13/Methods: "Setter methods that expect the new value as an argument
do not fall into the well-behaved category, however."
When I take these two together, in a way which may be out of contex
> -Original Message-
> From: chromatic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> We are trying to avoid the "java.lang.String is Final"
> problem here in various ways. One of them is not allowing
> library designers to mark things as final.
Overloading "final" was Java's rather inept attempt to def
and a few more thoughts:
I wrote:
> S12 says (in the context of classes):
>
>
> my method think (Brain $self: $thought)
>
> (Such methods are completely invisible to ordinary method calls, and are
> in fact called with a different syntax that uses ! in place of the .
> character. See below.
S12 says (in the context of classes):
my method think (Brain $self: $thought)
(Such methods are completely invisible to ordinary method calls, and are
in fact called with a different syntax that uses ! in place of the .
character. See below.)
And later on, in the context of roles:
my m
