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

[Graham Barr]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 04:59:19PM -0800, Michael Fowler wrote:
> Which makes me think of the following.  You don't need to 'use' a seperate
> module for a procedural or OO interface.  The module author could simply
> provide a constructor in the procedural module that would require the OO
> module in the background, and bless the object into that class.

That was where this thread started.

>  This would
> appear largely transparent to the user, right up until they tried to do
> isa() or ref() tests on the object.

But that is the catch. Now if the language was to give us a way to support
both in the same package in an efficient way, so much the better.

Graham.