Re: RFC 126 (v1) Ensuring Perl's object-oriented future

[David L. Nicol]

Peter Scott wrote:
> 
> At 05:12 AM 8/19/00 +1000, Damian Conway wrote:
> >    > The main downside of accessors is that you can't (currently) say
> >    >
> >    >     local $obj->attribute = 2;
> >
> >Even if C<attribute> returns an lvalue???
> 
> If it does, how do you localize it?  What would that mean?


It means, that the current value of $obj\attribute is stored somewhere, and
when the scope exits, the value from somewhere is returned to it.


Why would it be different?




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