[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: class Dog {
: method tail { "brown and short" }
: };
:
: class Chihuahua is Dog {
: has $.color;
: method tail { $.color _ " and short" }
: };
:
: You can say Dog.tail, Dog.new.tail, Chihuahua.new.tail, but not
: Chihuahua.tail. That's extremely counter-int
On Thursday 19 January 2006 06:48, Rob Kinyon wrote:
> "Any practical programming language with structural subtyping will
> probably let you create and use aliases for type names (so you don't
> have to write the full form everywhere). However, the underlying type
> system will only consider the s
Rob Kinyon wrote:
> "Any practical programming language with structural subtyping will
> probably let you create and use aliases for type names (so you don't
> have to write the full form everywhere). However, the underlying type
> system will only consider the structure of the type when doing its
On 1/18/06, Audrey Tang (autrijus) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://cakoose.com/wiki/type_system_terminology#13
"Any practical programming language with structural subtyping will
probably let you create and use aliases for type names (so you don't
have to write the full form everywhere). Howeve
On 1/19/06, Matt Fowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Could you provide a concrete example of the advantage of this approach
> please? Failing that can you try and expand on your gut feeling a
> bit?
May or may not be of use, but Larry's view sounds a bit like reconcilling the
(again considered ir
On 1/18/06, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 01:56:53PM -0500, Rob Kinyon wrote:
> : Today on #perl6, Audrey, Stevan and I were talking about $repr. A
> : tangent arose where Audrey said that the difference between class
> : methods and instance methods was simply whe
Larry~
On 1/18/06, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> But I have a strong gut-feeling that over the long term it's going to
> be important to be able to view a given object as either a partially
> instantiated class or a partially undefined object, and for that we have
> to break down the f
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 01:56:53PM -0500, Rob Kinyon wrote:
: Today on #perl6, Audrey, Stevan and I were talking about $repr. A
: tangent arose where Audrey said that the difference between class
: methods and instance methods was simply whether or not the body
: contained an attribute access.
:
:
