On 12/11/02 2:04 PM, Michael Lazzaro wrote: > On Wednesday, December 11, 2002, at 10:36 AM, John Siracusa wrote: >> Maybe "AS_STRING" and "AS_STRING_DEBUG"? Too long? "DEBUG_STRING"? >> Are we married to the "AS_*" thing? > > Not really -- whatever works. We also had .debug, .identity, and .id > proposed, for example.
I like the CAPS since it provides some semblance of naming isolation, but I'm not sure what the convention is in Perl 6. All lowercase with no prefix is out of the question, I think. I already have many, many Perl 5 objects with "id" and "debug" methods, for example. -John
