On 6/17/05 6:18 PM, Damian Conway wrote: > John Siracusa wrote: >> (BTW, I'm not sure where those "./" thingies came from, but it's what GMail >> showed in your message. I'm assuming it should just be ".") > > No. There's now also a unary ./ operator in Perl 6. > > Unary . calls a specified method on the current topic. > Unary ./ calls a specified method on the current invocant. > > The point being that methods no longer topicalize their invocant. So you need > to use ./ instead of . to call methods on an implicit invocant.
Wow, that..er...how did I miss that? It looks a lot like running an executable in the current dir instead of letting the shell search its path. Was that intentional? Was this syntax discussed on a mailing list or elsewhere? I really liked plain old .foo(), but I guess I'll just use explicit invocants and look like an old fuddy duddy... :) (also, at least it's not "/." <shudder> ;) -John
