Re: stringification of objects, subroutine refs

2002-05-12 Thread Ariel Scolnicov
Brent Dax [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # I was wondering how perl6 would stringify (as in Data::Dumper): As Dan said, that's serialization. I don't know if Perl will support that built-in. But if it does... # 1) objects with 'my' and 'our' variables Those would

Re: Selective exporting of properties/methods

2002-05-12 Thread Miko O'Sullivan
While thinking Eiffel-ish thoughts the other day, I began to wonder if Perl6's classes could go beyond the simple private/public/protected scheme by optionally allowing for a property or method to only be accessed by a certain set of classes. Many times when I've used OO languages I've

Re: Selective exporting of properties/methods

2002-05-12 Thread Chris Dutton
On Sunday, May 12, 2002, at 02:18 PM, Miko O'Sullivan wrote: While thinking Eiffel-ish thoughts the other day, I began to wonder if Perl6's classes could go beyond the simple private/public/protected scheme by optionally allowing for a property or method to only be accessed by a certain set

Re: FIRST, BETWEEN, etc.. (was Re: Loop controls)

2002-05-12 Thread Miko O'Sullivan
From: David Whipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] It it too much to ask, of the creator of a tied array, to implement their code in such a way that *reading* an element of that array does not have significant side-effects? Actually, I think that *is* a significant imposition. The whole point of tied arrays

Re: FIRST, BETWEEN, etc.. (was Re: Loop controls)

2002-05-12 Thread Trey Harris
In a message dated Sun, 12 May 2002, Miko O'Sullivan writes: From: David Whipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] It it too much to ask, of the creator of a tied array, to implement their code in such a way that *reading* an element of that array does not have significant side-effects? Actually, I think