On 5/14/05, Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/14/05, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At the moment $?SELF is the only canonical form, though the invocant > > is also in $_ at least until it's rebound. Any other forms will > > probably involve a pragma or macro, since there is no consensus on > > a shortcut. > > Er, isn't that a mistake that we don't want to make again? Admittedly > it's a fairly small one compared to the other OO mistakes in Perl 5, > but it's in the same class. This is one of those TMTOWDTI, TNOWTDI[1] > situations. Now, I don't really care if we make the obvious way > o.foo, ^foo, \foo/, or whatever, but I think it's important that we > pick one. If there's no short way to write it, people will start > making them, and every time you pick up a new piece of code, you have > to relearn how to say "I".
[1] There's no obvious... Luke