On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 03:12:09AM -0600, Josh Jore wrote: > > This is just your friendly neighborhood curmudgeon reminding you that in > > Perl 6, everything is an object. This is a concept that, as Perl > > programmers, we're not familiar with. > > Are these objects class based or where do the methods come from? Is there > an accomodation for something like classless objects? Being forced into > class based objects might be problematic for a capabilities system where > you wouldn't want to have objects bristling with exposed methods.
These are questions about the general design of Perl 6's OO system and out of the scope of ths discussion. The Perl 6 OO Cookbook does a good job of documenting what OO will look like in Perl 6 this week: http://cog.cognitivity.com/perl6/