On 1/20/06, Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Note, by the way, that JS has "primitive" strings, and Strings, only the > latter being objects. Fortunately for us, though, a string is > automatically promoted to a String when the string is USED AS an object.
In other words, according to userland, everything is an object. > > But, if you must use the WMoT, then I suspect the following will happen: > > 1) The WMoT notices your use of &bless and marks that package as a > > class and that method as a constructor. > > 2) It creates a Perl6 class for your use, noting the accesses into > > the Perl5 reference that you used and calling those attributes. > > 3) It then creates your BUILD() method, putting all the non-bless > > components of your new() into it. > > Doesn't solve the problems as mentioned in this thread, like overlapping > methods. Yeah it does because all $repr's are p6opaque with direct access being converted into attribute access. No method overlap. Rob
