Damian just got finished his YAPC opening talk, and managed to allude
to dispatching and autoloading.
As it *appears* today, regular dispatching and multimethod dispatching
are going to be wired into the langauge (as appropriate). Runtime
dispatch behavior will continue to be supported, including things like
AUTOLOADER and the like.
As of January, the thinking is sub DISPATCH {} will handle runtime
dispatching behaviors, including autoloading, but easily accomodating
value-based dispatching, AOP style pre/post methods, and whatnot.
Unfortunately, Damian said that the design team isn't saying much about
this, because the semantics aren't quite worked out yet, especially with
the interaction between autoloading and other dynamic dispatching
behaviors.
Yes, this is a *big* issue.
Z.
