On Jul 12, 2009, at 20:15 , David Green wrote:
sub nighttime (Canine $rover) { $rover.bark if any(burglars()); }
(...)
3) $rover acts like a Canine, but the rest of the original $dogwood arg (the Tree parts) are still there; they just aren't used unless somehow explicitly brought out; for example, by casting $rover to a Tree, or by passing it to some other function that is looking for a Tree object. This is how I'd like it to work, because that's the most flexible.
If you haven't declared it as such, this strikes me as a bad thing. Perhaps some kind of declarative syntax that lets you declare that you can take a Dogwood, such that you get an added argument which is undef (for a non-Dogwood) or a Dogwood (or Tree?)?
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