Re: RFC for $ME class variable (was Re: RFC 124 (v1) Sort order for any hash)

[Damian Conway]

>From his padded room, Randal suggested:

   > >>>>> "John" == John Siracusa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
   > 
   > John> I don't like $ME either, but my alternative is probably even more
   > John> blasphemous: use $self.  
   > 
   > John> But wait, it gets worse:  I'd even be happy with the bareword "self"
   > 
   > I'll have an adjacent cell.  I actually like that *better* than $self.


You can have your cake, but not force us to eat it too...

Like $AUTOLOAD, $ME would be dynamically scoped:

        package LoonyBin;

        sub self {$ME};

        sub get_polite_age : method {
                return (self->age >= 40) ? 39 : self->age;
        }


One might even imagine a standard pragma that automatically creates
such things in any package with methods.

We seem to cope with $AUTOLOAD okay, without the need to:

        sub autoload : lvalue {$AUTOLOAD}

all the time.

Damian