On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 11:04:52AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: : This message is looking for a clarification/confirmation. : S12:207 says: : : > To call an ordinary method with ordinary method-dispatch semantics, : > use either the dot notation or indirect object notation: : > : > $obj.doit(1,2,3) : > doit $obj: 1,2,3 : > : > If the method was not found, it will fall back to a subroutine call : > instead, with the invocant becoming the first positional argument. : : Does fall back to a subroutine occur anytime we don't have : a method with a matching signature? For example, if we have
Maybe it's just a temporary lack of imagination, but I'm having trouble these days coming up with any kind of a use case for confusing single dispatch with multiple dispatch. Yeah, I know I wrote that, but I was either smarter or stupider back then... Larry
