Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 8:46 AM +0000 1/28/03, Piers Cawley wrote: >>Bugger. I was hoping that Perl 6 was going to make a Pixie like Object >>database easier to write; looks like I'm wrong. One of the things >>Pixie does is to attach its control data by magic to the object itself >>(rather than any particular variable pointing to it). This lets us do >>all sorts of useful stuff without invading the object since we know >>that it will carry our metadata around it. Please, consider making >><but> properties attach to the target of a pointer rather than to the >>pointer itself. And if you don't want to do that, I'd say that there >>is a need to be able to specify some new kind of property that does >>attach to the target. > > Given the current implementation (And I hear rumors that you lurk on > the internals list, Piers... :)
Nah, that's someone else with the same name and writing style. > I think we can manage something like this. Might require a drop to > assembly somewhere, perhaps hidden behind a function rather than > with syntax, but it should be doable... <Breaths sigh of relief> -- Piers
