----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 3:41 PM Subject: [perl] Re: Object Order of Precedence (Was: Vocabulary)
> Larry Wall wrote: > > If DangerousPet doesn't define a feed method at all, then we might > > dispatch to Pet and Predator as if their methods had an implicit > > "multi". > > And the C<default> trait is the tie-breaker when several options are > equally likely candidates (in terms of type information); OK. I'm a little leery about calling this trait "default". The problem is that we are already using "default" as a keyword (see the switch statement), and having a trait with the same name as a keyword might confuse users and/or the compiler. Joe Gottman
