Larry,
Thanks much, this all makes sense. :)
Thanks,
Stevan
On Jul 14, 2005, at 4:54 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 04:31:07PM -0400, Stevan Little wrote:
: Now, the metamodel currently does not have MMD, and I think "next
: METHOD" is not as relevant in SMD. So would it make
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 04:31:07PM -0400, Stevan Little wrote:
: > A submethod is simply a method that says "These
: >aren't the droids you're looking for" if you call it via either SMD
: >or MMD dispatch and the first invocant isn't of the exact run-time
: >type of the lexical class. In other wor
Larry,
Thanks for the detailed reply. Just a few more questions and I think I
can get this into the metamodel :)
On Jul 14, 2005, at 3:40 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 07:27:52PM -0400, Stevan Little wrote:
: The way I am viewing the notion of "current class" for submethods
:
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 07:27:52PM -0400, Stevan Little wrote:
: The way I am viewing the notion of "current class" for submethods
: currently is:
:
: From inside another method or submethod:
:
: - a submethod should only be called from the class which defines it.
This doesn't sound right to me
Larry,
On Jul 13, 2005, at 2:30 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
: The Syn/Apoc seem to indicate that methods and submethods of the same
: name can coexist. So the class definition itself is legal. However,
it
: brings up an issue when it comes time to call bar().
If the Syn/Apoc is giving that impressi
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:51:49PM -0400, Stevan Little wrote:
: Hello,
:
: More questions for the metamodel. I am trying to add proper submethod
: and private method handling and I have a question about method
: resolution order as a whole. I asked a similar question last week, but
: this time
Hello,
More questions for the metamodel. I am trying to add proper submethod
and private method handling and I have a question about method
resolution order as a whole. I asked a similar question last week, but
this time I have more details :)
Given this class:
class Foo {
submethod
