Re: How to implement both object->method and module::function interface?

[Bart Lateur]

On Wed, 09 Aug 2000 13:58:34 +0100, Hildo Biersma wrote:

>Yikes.  Class method calls should perform inheritance, subroutine calls
>should not.

I agree with that.

>Altering the language to make the two look the same is a bad
>idea, because it breaks, fatally, as soon as the class supports more
>than one object at a time.

Then, the alternative method would be NOT to use the word "sub" any more
in order to make a method.

        method param {
            ... # this is a method, including inheritance
        }
        sub param {
            ... # this is an ordinary function; no inheritance
        }

Both could well coexist withing the same module; but they can't both be
CODE refs.

-- 
        Bart.