Re: Generalizing value properties to become postits

2001-07-03 Thread Damian Conway
Simplifying somewhat (ok, a heck of a lot), an rvalued: $foo is bar or $foo : bar is syntactic sugar for: bar($foo) with some extra magic for handling a properties hash associated with $foo's value, in particular resetting

Re: Generalizing value properties to become postits

2001-07-03 Thread John Siracusa
On 7/3/01 8:14 PM, Damian Conway wrote: You lost me here. Your ideas for properties are different from mine (which may well, in turn, be different from Larry's). Anyone else get the feeling that properties are to Perl 6 what oo was to Perl 5? :) It's like we'll finally be getting the oo bit

Generalizing value properties to become postits

2001-07-02 Thread Me
Simplifying somewhat (ok, a heck of a lot), an rvalued: $foo is bar or $foo : bar is syntactic sugar for: bar($foo) with some extra magic for handling a properties hash associated with $foo's value, in particular resetting the hash when $foo's value changes. Right? Basically,