On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 08:45:25AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: : More info. ¢T is a scalar variable just like $T, but enforces a : class view, so you can use it as a class parameter, and pass any : object to it, but only access the classish aspects of the object.
And a nice side effect of that is that declaring the invocant ¢T doesn't commit to whether you are thinking in a class-based or prototype-based model. And you wouldn't care until you got down to a .clone or a .bless. Larry