Piers,
Apologies...I actually put them into one mail deliberately, because I
didn't want to burn more mindspace than necessary...people could skim
all my questions at once, answer those they were interested in, and be
done. I didn't think about how this would impact the summaries.
In future, I'll
David Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Greetings all,
>
> Ok, it took me several days to get through A6, and I'm not caught up
> on all the mail yet (though I've tried to skim so I don't repeat
> someone else's question). I'm left with a bunch of questions; can
> anyone answer the following:
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 10:52:26AM -0800, David Storrs wrote:
sub identifier {m{ <[\w]-[\d]> \w+ }}
rule identifier { <[\w]-[\d]> \w }
I personally don't see a lot of difference between those two, but I'll
go with you on the "helps people know that $match should be a regex"
point. Good eno
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 10:56:51AM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote:
> Assuming the obvious inheritance, Vehicle.set_speed() would be called.
Ok good, that's what I thought. Thanks.
> No. Rules fit better in a grammar than subs, and help the psychology
> of people in various ways. For instance:
>
>
> ==QUESTION
> - Given the following code, what is called by $ride.current_speed()?
>
> class Vehicle {
> my $speed;
> method current_speed() { return $speed; }
> method set_speed($n) { $speed = $n; }
> }
>
> class Car {
> submethod current_speed() {
>
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:08:41PM -0500, Chris Dutton wrote:
> On Sunday, March 16, 2003, at 05:09 PM, David Storrs wrote:
>
> > ==QUESTION
> > - Page 8 says "In some languages, all methods are multimethods." I
> > believe that Java is one of these. Is that right and what are some
> > others?
Chris Dutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sunday, March 16, 2003, at 05:09 PM, David Storrs wrote:
>
> > ==QUESTION
> > - Page 8 says "In some languages, all methods are multimethods." I
> > believe that Java is one of these. Is that right and what are some
> > others? (This is really just
On Sunday, March 16, 2003, at 05:09 PM, David Storrs wrote:
==QUESTION
- Page 8 says "In some languages, all methods are multimethods." I
believe that Java is one of these. Is that right and what are some
others? (This is really just curiousity.)
==/
Doesn't C++ work this way? Also I believe P
