At 2:21 PM -0800 12/20/03, Larry Wall wrote:
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 12:41:10PM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote:
: So what happens if more than one of the candidates is tagged as the
: default? The same thing as if none of them was? This could happen if
: both Predator and Pet have declared their 'fee
Luke Palmer wrote:
Joe Gottman writes:
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Subject: [perl] Re: Object Order of Precedence (Was: Vocabulary)
Larry Wall wrote:
If Dange
Joe Gottman writes:
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Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 3:41 PM
Subject: [perl] Re: Object Order of Precedence (Was: Vocabulary)
> Larry Wall wrote:
> > If DangerousPet doesn't define
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 12:41:10PM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote:
: So what happens if more than one of the candidates is tagged as the
: default? The same thing as if none of them was? This could happen if
: both Predator and Pet have declared their 'feed' methods as the default.
Could blow up,
Larry Wall wrote:
> Jonathan Lang wrote:
> : Larry Wall wrote:
> : > Jonathan Lang wrote:
> Also, there will be access to the list of call candidates for SUPER::
> (and presumably ROLE::) such that the class's method can get explicit
> control of which super/role method or methods get called. So
Larry Wall writes:
> But if you say something like:
>
> class DangerousPet does Pet does Predator {
> multi method feed ($x) {...}
> }
>
> then DangerousPet::feed is called only when multimethod dispatch
> would have thrown an exception. Alternately, multi's will probably have
> so
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:02:53PM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote:
: Larry Wall wrote:
: > Jonathan Lang wrote:
: > : Let's see if I've got this straight:
: > :
: > : role methods supercede inherited methods;
: >
: > But can defer via SUPER::
: >
: > : class methods supercede role methods;
: >
: >
Jonathan Lang writes:
> Larry Wall wrote:
> > Well, nothing much really supercedes the class. Even traits have
> > to be requested by the class, and if you have an entirely different
> > metaclass, it's probably declared with a different keyword than
> > C. (But sure, multiple traits will have to
