Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-29 through 2004-12-06

2004-12-07 Thread David Wheeler
On Dec 6, 2004, at 6:27 PM, Matt Fowles wrote: getters and setters John Siracusa wanted to know if Perl 6 would allow one to expose a member variable to the outside world, but then later intercept assignments to it without actually having to switch to using getters and setters i

Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-29 through 2004-12-06

2004-12-06 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-29 through 2004-12-06 All~ Last week I asked for help identifying the source of a quotation. One friendly soul suggested Alan J. Perlis, but could not find an actual attribution. It did lead me to find a very applicable (and in my mind funny) quote