Re: Another quick one: .as<ancestor>

On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 17:52 -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 12:51:57PM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote:
> : I would assume that all classes automatically define:
> : 
> :  multi submethod *infix:<as> ($self: $?CLASS) { $self }
> 
> Hmm, "as" is really only intended for explicit type mutation (which
> can work either by role mixin or by new object construction).  It's
> not intended to give Perl a different "view" of an unmutated object.

Thanks. I think I got compile-time polymorphism confused with run-time
mutation. These are moose of vastly different colors.

-- 
Aaron Sherman <ajs@ajs.com>
Senior Systems Engineer and Toolsmith
"We had some good machines, but they don't work no more." -Shriekback

• Another quick one: .as<ancestor> by Aaron Sherman
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