Re: ./method

[Abhijit Mahabal]

On Sun, 15 May 2005, Juerd wrote:
I do think $__ looks too much like $_.
Yeah, lets drop that idea.
A bit better would be to not have
a "bigger" topic, but a "higher" topic, $-, but the problem with seeing
the invocant as a topic on another level, is that
inconsistency/asymmetry would be introduced between
   method {
       # topic is object
       given 5 {
           # topic is 5
           # "bigger" topic is object, we access it as $__
       }
   }
and
   given $object {
       # topic is object
       given 5 {
           # topic is 5
           # $object is neither $_ nor $__
       }
   }
By "bigger topic" I did not mean "outer topic"; I was thinking that $__ 
can *only* get bound to an invocant.


You didn't say what you think about ./method; What is your opinion?
I like it. ( I assume you mean:
        .method   is always $_.method
        ./method  is always $?SELF.method )
Yes, I like it a lot!
--abhijit
Abhijit Mahabal      http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~amahabal/