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From:
Michael Fowler
Date:
December 16, 2000 00:33
Subject:
Re: RFC from a newbie: Method References
Message ID:
20001215233456.H1023@shoebox.net
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 11:23:23PM -0800, Ian Hickson wrote:
> So: What I would love to see in Perl 6 is a way of having a single scalar
> that holds a reference to a particular instance's method.
> 
> Is there any chance that this would be considered? Or is this already
> possible in Perl 5 but I have missed it?

How about:
    my $foo = Foo->create();
    my $methodref = sub { $foo->method(@_) };

    &$methodref();


Michael
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