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> At the moment I'm trying to see if I could get used to ..method meaning
> $_.method, and whether it buys me anything psychologically.
At some point, adding another thing people have to remember in order to
save one character gets a bit self-defeating, surely.
The good thing about $_.method is that it is familiar, quite compact
anyways by virtue of using $_, and nobody is going to be surprised by it.
Personally (and I'm admittedly leaning towards simplicity lately) I'd
even throw a warning for using .method when there is an explicitly named
invocant as well.
# Good
sub foo {
.bar;
}
# Possibly confusing, throw a warning or forbid under strict?
sub foo ($self:) {
.bar;
}
# More obvious
sub foo ($self:) {
$self.bar;
}
of course, since it is still preferable to be symmetrical, if $.attr is
legal (and no warning) with a named invocant, then so should .method be.
Adam K
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