Re: Hoping that Params::Validate is not needed in Perl6

[Autrijus Tang]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:02:23AM -0700, chromatic wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 23:43 -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> 
> > But I'd really like to get this stuff done at compile time wherever 
> > possible.  If I write this:
> > 
> >    validate( credit_card_number: $number );

BTW, the colon is on the left:

    :credit_card_number($number)

> > it should blow up at compile time, right?
> 
> Does that depend on how closed you want Perl 6 to think your world is at
> compile time?

Right, because introducing new multi variant at runtime is a
desired feature.  Which is why I think "closed" should not be
limited to classes, but should extend to packages as well...

Thanks,
/Autrijus/

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