On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 07:25:14AM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote:
: Perl 6 is making it easier to define custom block constructs like this
: one. I worry about:
:
: method foo () {
: preserve {
: .bar;
: }
: }
:
: This one's a tad more subtle. Normally preserve's
I came across this slight annoyance working in Perl 5 today:
sub preserve(&) {...}
sub foo {
preserve {
$_[0]->bar;
}
}
That didn't call "bar" on the invocant of "foo", but rather on "undef",
because preserve's block was a hiding sub.
Perl 6 is making it
