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From:
Abhijit Mahabal
Date:
June 17, 2005 15:55
Subject:
Re: Ignoring parameters
Message ID:
Pine.LNX.4.63.0506171751140.27877@sluggo.cs.indiana.edu
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Damian Conway wrote:
> John Siracusa wrote:
>
>> (BTW, I'm not sure where those "./" thingies came from, but it's what
>> GMail
>> showed in your message. I'm assuming it should just be ".")
>
> No. There's now also a unary ./ operator in Perl 6.
>
> Unary . calls a specified method on the current topic.
> Unary ./ calls a specified method on the current invocant.
>
> The point being that methods no longer topicalize their invocant. So you need
> to use ./ instead of . to call methods on an implicit invocant.
Er, is it true that methods don't topicalize the invocant nowadays? I had
thought that they do and one needs the ./ to still talk about the invocant
if some inner loop stole the $_, and until such stealing occurs .foo() and
./foo() are the same...
--abhijit
>
> Damian
>
>
Abhijit Mahabal http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~amahabal/
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