Re: RFC 174 (v1) Parse C<func($obj, @args)> as C<func $obj (@args)>
[email protected] (Damian Conway) Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:27:31 +1100 (EST)
| Newsgroups | perl.perl6.language.subs |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
> Just wanted to clarify this, as I think this may be the part that
> overlaps with what you're doing. Under this syntax, the object would be
> called for you automatically, so your prototypes wouldn't have to deal
> with optional first arguments at all:
>
> print($FILE, "$stuff"); # $FILE->print($stuff)
> print("$stuff"); # main::print($stuff)
How does it know that the second version isn't:
$stuff->print();
????
Damian