On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:42:49 -0500
"Mark Galbreath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I miss the reference dot notation of Java and other OO languages,
> however. Why didn't Larry include that? And the 'use v. require'
> issue seems silly to me. Why not a simple 'import' statement? And
> the accessor schema and issues of 'my v. our v. local' and package
> transparency seems hackneyed to me. Perhaps 6.0 will address issues
> like these? I haven't looked.
Just an FYI, Perl 6 will use the dot notation for calling methods.
Having just an "import" would reduce the flexibility. And actually
the subroutine 'import()' is there, but it is in the actual module
( or inherited from something like Exporter ) and called so the
module can determine what to import itself. "use Foo;" is just a
convient wrapper for:
BEGIN { require Foo; import Foo; }
---------------------------------
Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.wiles.org
---------------------------------
