> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Wall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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();
But it would work as a "class multi", right?
class String is extended {
multi scramble(String $s) {...}
}
"hello".scramble();
String::scramble("hello"); # Way overspecified for a multi...
=Austin
