Re: method hiding (or not) in derived classes

2008-04-21 Thread TSa
HaloO, John M. Dlugosz wrote: TSa Thomas.Sandlass-at-barco.com |Perl 6| wrote: "Candidate set" would be a better term. It is a subset of all long names of a multi in a lexical scope. List, not set, because it is ordered. nextsame/nextwith/etc. are described as invoking the next candidate on

Re: method hiding (or not) in derived classes

2008-04-21 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 08:00:07AM -, John M. Dlugosz wrote: : Perl 6 has a concept of a "candidate list". The candidate list are those that could handle the call, typically inherited methods and multi variations. : : It seems that multi variations, at least with respect to the semicolon

Re: method hiding (or not) in derived classes

2008-04-21 Thread John M. Dlugosz
TSa Thomas.Sandlass-at-barco.com |Perl 6| wrote: "Candidate set" would be a better term. It is a subset of all long names of a multi in a lexical scope. List, not set, because it is ordered. nextsame/nextwith/etc. are described as invoking the next candidate on the list. Therefore, there is

Re: method hiding (or not) in derived classes

2008-04-21 Thread TSa
HaloO, John M. Dlugosz wrote: Perl 6 has a concept of a "candidate list". The candidate list are those that could handle the call, typically inherited methods and multi variations. "Candidate set" would be a better term. It is a subset of all long names of a multi in a lexical scope. It se