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From:
Dan Sugalski
Date:
April 8, 2003 12:10
Subject:
Re: Properties & Methods
Message ID:
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At 11:26 AM -0700 4/8/03, Larry Wall wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 11:01:24AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>: At 12:12 AM -0600 4/8/03, Luke Palmer wrote:
>: >In this case it would be great to have lexically and dynamically
>: >scoped properties. So:
>:
>: Gah! No! Nononononononono! Have I mentioned I'd rather not?
>:
>: Lexically and dynamically scoped *methods* I can manage, as that's
>: just a layered namespace issue, and that's no big deal. Lexically and
>: dynamically scoped *properties*, though... Yowtch.
>
>But what if you just think of the property as a method on a singleton class?
Then I have to completely rip out the current property system,
property introspection becomes much harder, and the property hash you
mandated doesn't work well any more.
Other than that I can do it... :)
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Dan
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