Re: Generalizing value properties to become postits

2001-07-03 Thread John Siracusa
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

Re: Generalizing value properties to become postits

2001-07-03 Thread Damian Conway
> 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

Generalizing value properties to become postits

2001-07-02 Thread Me
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