On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Damian Conway wrote:

>  John Siracusa wrote:
> 
> >  (BTW, I'm not sure where those "./" thingies came from, but it's what
> >  GMail
> >  showed in your message.  I'm assuming it should just be ".")
> 
>  No. There's now also a unary ./ operator in Perl 6.
> 
>  Unary . calls a specified method on the current topic.
>  Unary ./ calls a specified method on the current invocant.
> 
>  The point being that methods no longer topicalize their invocant. So you need 
>  to use ./ instead of . to call methods on an implicit invocant.

Er, is it true that methods don't topicalize the invocant nowadays? I had 
thought that they do and one needs the ./ to still talk about the invocant 
if some inner loop stole the $_, and until such stealing occurs .foo() and 
./foo() are the same...

--abhijit

> 
>  Damian
> 
> 

Abhijit Mahabal      http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~amahabal/