--- Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In my quest to eliminate as many explicit conditionals from my code
> as
> possible, I found myself wondering if Perl 6's multidispatch
> mechanism
> would allow one to write:
>
> sub gmttime ( $time = time() ) is in_scalar_context {
> strftime( $perls_default_time_format, $time );
> }
>
> sub gmttime ( $time = time() ) is in_list_context {
> ...
> }
>
> where 'in_scalar_context' and 'in_list_context' are place holders for
> better syntax.
>
> Thoughts?
I think that if RFC 21 is approved (general-purpose C<want()>, with
smartmatch flavors) the information to dispatch these should be
available.
OTOH, it also seems like this is asking for trouble, MMD-wise.
=Austin
