Re: Variable attributes - Object-oriented

2000-10-01 Thread Peter Scott
At 02:52 PM 10/1/00 -0400, John Porter wrote: >I believe that mentioning an attribute of a variable is >really a method call on the variable's underlying object -- >which, in perl6, can have user-definable behavior. >Where some language use dot or arrow syntax, perl uses colon. >Very isomorphic. >

Re: Variable attributes - Object-oriented

2000-10-01 Thread Nathan Wiger
> I believe that mentioning an attribute of a variable is > really a method call on the variable's underlying object -- > which, in perl6, can have user-definable behavior. > Where some language use dot or arrow syntax, perl uses colon. > Very isomorphic. > Please tell me I'm right! :-) Pretty