Kevan Benson wrote: > That said, I submit that it's a very confusing part of the language as > defined currently, and I haven't seen a very thorough explanation of the > purpose of each method in the chain the instantiates a new object. S12 > touches upon them slightly, but not in enough detail that I was able to > work out where I should be adding code to appropriately make alternate > constructors.
I've tried to explain that here: http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-6/object-construction-and-initialization.html (If anybody thinks part of this is worthy backporting to the specs, feel free). Cheers, Moritz