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On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> wrote: > Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> wrote > on Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:46:09 +0100: > >> You have tables in your POD? We should have that in the core >> POD toolchain too. > > Perhaps so. > >>> item * >>> >>> Perl methods are just methods, and they always receive their invocant as a >>> bonus, initial argument. =C2=A0Perl as a language makes no distinction between >>> object methods, class methods, or static methods in the Python sense of these tings. > >>Isn't the same true for Python? (No python expert here). > > Perl doesn't have or need a special staticmethod() constructor > to make a method that doesn't get its invocant passed in. > > Python also has a classmethod(), which makes a method work > normally from our persepctive. Normal object methods aren't such. FYI: I summarized all 4 possible perl method calls (plus function calls) here: http://blogs.perl.org/users/rurban/2011/06/how-perl-calls-subs-and-methods.html -- Reini Urban http://cpanel.net/ http://www.perl-compiler.org/Thread Previous | Thread Next