On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:38:11AM +0000, Andy Wardley wrote:
: Larry Wall wrote:
: > multi sub *scramble (String $s) returns String {...}
: [...]
: > Or you can just call it directly as a function:
: > scramble("hello")
:
: Can you also call scramble as a class method?
:
: class String is extended {
: method scramble { ..etc... }
: }
:
: String.scramble("hello")
Not unless you write a class method that takes an extra argument.
Otherwise you're passing a class where it expects a string, and a
string where it expects nothing. However, much like in Perl 5 you
can always force which class's method to call with
"hello".String::scramble();
Larry
