On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 12:02, Aldo Calpini wrote:
> if Perl5 objects are to be implemented somewhat 'transparently' in Perl6,
> things like:
>
> $obj->{meta}
>
> will become:
>
> $obj.meta
>
> when used from Perl6. or not?
True enough, but this was just a quick exploration of the likelihood
that there would be conflict. An exhaustive analysis I leave up to those
who have time to untar all of CPAN :-)
Seriously though, it's also not as much of a concern as the fact that
the free accessors are going to conflict left and right with modules
that implement their own accessors, often with slightly different
semantics than the auto-accessors in Perl 6 will provide. Converting
CPAN over to Perl 6 is going to be a major pain in the butt, so that's
not really what I was solving for (Perl 5 mode will solve for that in
the short term). I just wanted to add some sense of "if I were writing a
module, how likely would it be that I would spontaneously use meta?".
--
Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Senior Systems Engineer and Toolsmith
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