In a message dated Thu, 3 Oct 2002, John Williams writes: > On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Trey Harris wrote: > > > Incidentally, has there been any headway made on how you DO access > > multiple classes with the same name, since Larry has (indirectly) promised > > us that? I.e., I import two classes "LinkedList" and "BTree", both of > > which define a "Node" class? > > Hopefully, LinkedList defines a LinkedList::Node class, and BTree defines > a BTree::Node class. Either by explicitly naming them that or by virtue > of being defined as an "inner" class (which might also make it private).
Ah, but that's the way you do it now--name the classes differently. (Easy--assuming you control the source code!) In Perl 6, we're supposed to be able to use multiple versions of the same class concurrently, which I think would imply also being able to use multiple classes that happened to be named the same thing. Trey
