Larry~ On 1/18/06, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But I have a strong gut-feeling that over the long term it's going to > be important to be able to view a given object as either a partially > instantiated class or a partially undefined object, and for that we have > to break down the false class/instance dichotomy. And to the extent > that the dichotomy *isn't* false, we're trying to sweep classness into > the .meta object, which is the *real* class object in Perl 6.
Perhaps I am just being short sighted, but I never saw this as a false dichotomy. In fact, every time I hear about these "partially instatiated" I cringe in horror about the strange halfway lands we might end up in... Oh no, this method can only be called on an object that is 3/4 initialized, and you supplied one that is 2/3 initialized that causes undefined behavior. Could you provide a concrete example of the advantage of this approach please? Failing that can you try and expand on your gut feeling a bit? Thanks, Matt -- "Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory." -Stan Kelly-Bootle, The Devil's DP Dictionary
