On 1/25/06, Jonathan Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Larry Wall wrote:
> > But my hunch is that it's
> > a deep tagmemic/metaphorical problem we're trying to solve here.
> > Such issues arise whenever you start making statements of the form
> > "I want to use an A as if it were a B." The problem
On 1/26/06, Stevan Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually this might not be a bad approach in this case. Take this for
> instance:
>
> method foo (Foo $self, $key) {
> ((Hash) $self){$key}
> }
>
> The syntax is ugly, but it makes what you are doing more explicit. I
> would also think tha
On 1/26/06, Rob Kinyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/26/06, Stevan Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Actually this might not be a bad approach in this case. Take this for
> > instance:
> >
> > method foo (Foo $self, $key) {
> > ((Hash) $self){$key}
> > }
> >
> > The syntax is ugly, but
On 1/26/06, Stevan Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If there is need to treat something as a Hash, then provide it with a
> > postcircumfix<{}> and leave it at that. It's highly unlikely that you
> > will want to add Hash-like behavior to something that already has a
> > postcircumfix<{}> beca
On 1/26/06, Rob Kinyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/26/06, Stevan Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > If there is need to treat something as a Hash, then provide it with a
> > > postcircumfix<{}> and leave it at that. It's highly unlikely that you
> > > will want to add Hash-like behavior
