On 12/11/02 6:16 PM, Damian Conway wrote: > There's no need for special methods or (gods forbid) more operators. > Just: > > $obj1.id == $obj2.id > > That's what the universal C<id> method is *for*.
I must have missed this (or forgotten it?) Any chance of it becoming .ID or .oid or even ._id? I'm kind of attached to using an "id" method on objects that represent things in a database... :-/ More generally, I really don't want to have too many (any?) "system" object method names squatting in "my" all-lowercase object method namespace. It's not hard to think of many kinds of objects that would naturally have an "id" attribute, but must now have "foo_id" and "bar_id" methods because the (probably rarely used) "id" method from UNIVERSAL (or whatever it is today) is hogging it. (The more I think about it, the more I like some kind of "reserved" prefix like "_" or even "perl_"...but I'd accept "oid" :) -John
