On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 03:56:04PM -0600, Garrett Goebel wrote: > Dan Sugalski wrote: > > At 8:29 PM +0100 11/7/02, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > > >Michael Lazzaro wrote: > > >>On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 06:36 AM, Austin Hastings wrote: > > >> > > >>>For 'bit', the key value is (eenie, meenie, ...) '1'. > > > > > >> From A2 we have: > > >> > > >>"Run-time properties really are associated with the object in > > >>question, which implies some amount of overhead. For that reason, > > >>intrinsic data types like C<int> and C<num> may or may not allow > > >>run-time properties. > > > > > >From E2: a C<int> will never have attributes or promote to an object. > > > > Attributes aren't properties. > > I thought: > > 'attributes' :Perl5 == 'properites' isa Perl6
Yeah. Where the Apocalyses and Exegeses say "attributes" they are referring to data members of an object: class Foo { has $.bar is friendly; } $.bar is an attribute (of Foo-ish objects), friendly is a property (of the $.bar attribute). > Can someone point me to Perl6 definitions for both terms? It's probably in Michael Lazzaro's documentation somewhere ;-) -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED]