This and the response from Elizabeth raise in my mind the following
question:
To what extent are papers/specifications from other parts of the
computer science world implicitly a part of the Perl6 specification?
I found references to 'getters and setters' in the synopsis on objects,
but without
The MOP is an API to the object-oriented system. With it, you can
query classes and their attributes and methods about their properties.
It can also be used to create whole new classes (or other types)
programatically.
Languages that have a MOP have a great advantage because, even though
the objec
Maybe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaobject is a good start for reading up on
what a MOP (Meta-Object Protocol) is.
Liz
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On 28 Oct 2013, at 14:17, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
> Moritz,
>
> You are the everflowing font of knowledge. Thanks.
>
> However, I read the synopsis on ob
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 05:17:37PM +0400, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
> Pardon the ignorance, but what is "the MOP". I sometimes get floored
> by the jargon.
Whatever answer we get should go into S99.
https://github.com/perl6/specs/blob/master/S99-glossary.pod
Pm
Moritz,
You are the everflowing font of knowledge. Thanks.
However, I read the synopsis on objects and did not find the .get_value
method.
Pardon the ignorance, but what is "the MOP". I sometimes get floored by
the jargon.
I read about the indirection for methods, but how does that relate
Hi Richard,
On 10/28/2013 08:07 AM, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
Perhaps I am using class incorrectly, but I set up a class, then change
some of the parameters in an instance of the class. Next I would like to
discover what the current state of the instance is.
There is a way to introspect throug
