On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 06:16:06PM +0000, Tim Bunce wrote: : In Java you would write "java.lang.String", naturally, and in Perl : you'd write "parrot::java::java.lang.String".
That's okay if it's a string being interpreted by the appropriate code, but as a Perl 6 name it won't wash. That's gonna try to call the .lang method on the parrot::java::java class, and the String method on the result of that. (Unless, of course, you define a parrot::java::java macro to mangle subsequent Perl 6 syntax. But that seems awfully hackish. And the parrot::java namespace might not let you define the macro there in the first place...) Larry
