On 4/20/04 2:37 PM, Larry Wall wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:15:24PM -0400, John Siracusa wrote: > : With that "has" line alone, you auto-magically get an accessor that works > : like this: > : > : $obj.foo # get value of $.foo > : $obj.foo(5) # set $.foo = 5 > > I don't care what syntactic sugar you put underneath, but if you expose > this interface to the user, it's fundamentally flawed. This is my > argument from the Apocalypse, and it hasn't changed. It's wrong > to introduce a fundamental asymmetry that breaks the contract that > an accessor can be used as a variable.
Er, I think we have different definitions of "accessor." I'm perfectly happy to never allow anyone to do $obj.foo = whatever. I just don't want to write trivial methods that get and set an attribute behind the scenes. -John
