On 7/3/01 8:14 PM, Damian Conway wrote:
> You lost me here. Your ideas for properties are different from mine
> (which may well, in turn, be different from Larry's).
Anyone else get the feeling that properties are to Perl 6 what oo was to
Perl 5? :) It's like we'll finally be getting the oo bit
> Simplifying somewhat (ok, a heck of a lot), an rvalued:
>
> $foo is bar
>
> or
>
> $foo : bar
>
> is syntactic sugar for:
>
> bar($foo)
>
> with some extra magic for handling a properties hash
> associated with $foo's value, in particul
Simplifying somewhat (ok, a heck of a lot), an rvalued:
$foo is bar
or
$foo : bar
is syntactic sugar for:
bar($foo)
with some extra magic for handling a properties hash
associated with $foo's value, in particular resetting the
hash when $foo's value changes.
Right?
Basically, p