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

[Chaim Frenkel]

>>>>> "GB" == Graham Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

GB> On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:14:36AM -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
>> As much as I'm not for it, would
>> 
>> having
>> 
>> sub foo :method {}           # In objects vtbl
>> and
>> sub foo {}                   # only if procedural call
>> 
>> being a valid construct and having perl dispatch appropriately, be
>> viable?

GB> What does it mean ? Can the first only ever be called as a methoed and the
GB> second as a procedure ? Will we have to define both foo's ?

That was my suggestion. And the _author_ if supplying a dual mode
module would define both. Either one in terms of the other in order to
save coding. Or if there were a good reason, two seperate versions.

As I said I'm not enamoured of this suggestion. But it's a thought.

Do you think perl can dynamically create one of the styles from the
other?

<chaim>
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