On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Michael Lazzaro wrote: : On Friday, October 11, 2002, at 04:11 PM, Larry Wall wrote: : > has Nose $.snout; : > has Ear @.ears is cut("long"); : > has Leg @.legs; : > has Tail $.tail is cut("short"); : > : > method Wag () {...} : > } : : What's the rationale again for the dot in $.snout? Does it imply that : it should be : : method .Wag () {...} : : to match?
Yes, that's part of it, presuming you actually meant: method .snout () {...} It also doesn't look like either a lexical or a global when you use it within the method. I always hated that about C++. I suppose it could be argued that the . is redundant within a "has", but I kinda like the consistency. It could also be argued that the '$' should be dropped on scalar attributes, but that's another consistency thing. You can certainly drop it within the methods, since there's also the accessor methods. Larry