Object Creation (was: Submethods (+ suggestion/proposal/idea))

2005-07-06 Thread Stevan Little
Larry, Okay, I reviewed A12, and I think I have now managed to implement the proper object creation behavior in the meta model. Currently it is somewhat limited, but this is the order of events (as I understand it from A12). - First Object.new calls Object.bless passing all named arguments.

Re: Submethods (+ suggestion/proposal/idea)

2005-07-06 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:28:47AM -0400, Stevan Little wrote: : It seemed to me from A12 that submethods are meant to define an : interface of some kind, the BUILD/DESTROY submethods being the perfect : example. However this means that BUILDALL and DESTROYALL need to be : fairly magical. I say

Re: Submethods (+ suggestion/proposal/idea)

2005-07-06 Thread Stevan Little
Thomas, On Jul 6, 2005, at 10:19 AM, TSa (Thomas Sandlaß) wrote: S12 says in the section Submethods: "A submethod is called only when a method call is dispatched directly to the current class." And without finding a reference I think it was said that "the invocant of a submethod is a class obj