On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:24:05AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > : My current understanding is that the typechecker considers IO to be of > : Class type, not of IO type; the fact that IO.does(IO) is true is purely > : an illusion created by special dispatch for .does. > > Well, that's what I thought last week. :-) > > But these days I'm wondering if the whole point of a class is to proxy > for its missing members, and everything else is deferred to the metaclass.
Hm. How is this different from prototype-based OO, as in JavaScript? I'd like to see some code examples that shows the difference of the week-before view and the current view... Thanks, /Autrijus/
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