On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:52:52PM -0400, Stevan Little wrote:
: But what if I want to do this?
:
: class Foo {
: my %:stuff;
: method keys (Class $c:) {
: %:stuff.keys();
: }
: }
:
: How can I get at my namespace now? How would I disambiguiate that call?
: Doing something like Foo.Package::keys() seems to me to be exposing too
: much of the meta-level (the Package class).
:
: I can see lots of potential conflict between class methods and methods
: to access the contents of a namespace (methods defined in the Hash role
: I assume). This means that Foo is getting even more and more magical.
: It's now a type annotation, a special undef value, the invocant in
: class methods and the "gatekeeper" of the namespace.
Well, like I said, we can require the extra :: in cases of ambiguity. It's
really only the misplaced sigil I'm trying to get rid of.
Larry
