Re: Per-object inheritance in core a red herring?

2001-07-01 Thread schwern
Before we get too far into details here, this is the real point I'm trying to make. The set of Perl 6 module authors will be much greater than the set of Perl 6 core programmers (again, same in Perl 5). The more Perl 6 things we can shove out into modules, the less work we have to do on the Perl

Re: Per-object inheritance in core a red herring?

2001-07-01 Thread schwern
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 01:07:59AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > >*bu* false logic. If you can do something via a core module, it > >is supported by Perl. Or does Perl not do CGI, web stuff, databases, > >etc...? > > Wrong--you may have a terrifically hard time using perl modules to provide

Re: Per-object inheritance in core a red herring?

2001-07-01 Thread Uri Guttman
> "s" == schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Wrong--you may have a terrifically hard time using perl modules to >> provide functions for non-perl languages that the interpreter >> supports. It may not help Python, or Ruby, for example, that libnet >> or its equivalent are provided

Re: Per-object inheritance in core a red herring?

2001-07-01 Thread schwern
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 04:08:24PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: > my translation: > > some features in other languages require core level support if perl6 > will be able to emulate or interact with them. Huh?? > s> There's two things in combination going on here. 1) The feature is > s> obscu

Anyone actually experienced with object inheritance?

2001-07-01 Thread schwern
Rather than stumbling around in the dark here, is anyone actually experienced with object inheritance? Any Self programmers out there? Someone that's actually used this technique often and understands what works and what does? Any books/articles to recommend? -- Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PR