Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 04:18:31PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 12:59:51PM -0700, David Whipp wrote:
> > > > Its not quite the same thing, but Java does have the concept of
> > > > anonymous classes (it names them 'inner' classes): Is Perl6 going
> > > > to have a similar concept?
> >
> > Okay, maybe I don't understand anonyous classes, but isn't this pretty
> > much the same thing:
> >
> > package Foo;
> >
> > {
> > package My::Anon::Class;
> > @ISA = qw(Whatever);
> > sub new { ... }
> > sub bar { ... }
> > }
> >
> > sub new {
> > my($class) = shift;
> > my $anon = My::Anon::Class->new;
> > ...
> > }
>
> No. Need to be able to do:
>
> my $anon = My::Anon::ObjectFactory->new(base => 'ClassName',
> method1 => sub {...},
> method2 => sub {...},);
>
> Comes in very handy in Unit::Test, especially when you're writing
> tests to test the test harness...
Hmm.... that's not quite right, since you need to be able to pass in
arguments to the anonymous class's constructor...
my $anon = My::Anon::ObjectFactory->new({base => 'Class',
method1 => sub { ... },
method2 => sub { ... }},
@constructor_args);
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Piers Cawley
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