Simon Cozens writes:
: This also led me to think about what happens when we introduce new built-ins.
: Perl 5 has had a complete built-in freeze for a long long time now because
: you can't bring in a new built-in without risking smacking subroutines in
: old code.
Right, that's been an impedimen
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 01:10:52PM -0400, John Siracusa wrote:
> This problem already exists to some degree in Perl 5. Stuff like isa() and
> can() is already squatting in the lowercase "user method" namespace. But I
> have a feeling that properties will multiply a lot faster than UNIVERSAL
> me
I know I'm jumping ahead, but here goes...
Built-in classes in Perl 5 and 6 are uppercase: UNIVERSAL, ARRAY, HASH, etc.
By convention, "user" classes are Title::Cased. Simple guideline: don't use
UPPERCASE class names or risk being squished by a later revision of Perl.
Method names *sort of* fo
