Author: larry Date: Tue Jun 20 11:38:41 2006 New Revision: 9716 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod Log: s/property/attribute/ from cognominal++ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod ============================================================================== --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod (original) +++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod Tue Jun 20 11:38:41 2006 @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Maintainer: Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> Date: 27 Oct 2004 - Last Modified: 3 Jun 2006 + Last Modified: 20 Jun 2006 Number: 12 Version: 16 @@ -403,8 +403,9 @@ to submethods. Ordinary methods should stick to the C<$.foo> form. Because C<$.foo>, C<@.foo>, C<%.foo>, C<&.foo> are just shorthands of -C<self.foo> with different contexts, the class does not need to declare C<has -$.foo> as a property -- a C<method foo> declaration can work just as well. +C<self.foo> with different contexts, the class does not need to declare +C<has $.foo> as an attribute -- a C<method foo> declaration can work +just as well. The dot form can take an argument list as well. These are all equivalent: