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MyASPN >> Mail Archive >> perl6-language
perl6-language
Re: AUTLOAD and $_
by Rod Adams other posts by this author
Jun 20 2005 5:09PM messages near this date
Re: AUTLOAD and $_ | Re: AUTLOAD and $_
Juerd wrote:

> I also don't see the symmetry between AUTOLOAD and AUTOMETH. Two things
> bother be about that: LOAD versus METH, while it should be SUB versus
> METH, and that METHOD is abbreviated while in the method keyword it is
> not. Either it should be abbreviated everywhere: meth foo { ... }, or
> nowhere: AUTOMETHOD. I personally like the "meth foo { ... }".
> 
> 
>   
> 

S10 talks about how it is AUTOSUB vs AUTOMETH (and others), but AUTOLOAD 
is still around. S10 doesn't mention it, but I think it's been said that 
AUTOLOAD only gets called as a last resort.

S10 also mentions that the 'goto' is implicit. I think I like the return 
of a ref better, since you're not always going to want to build the 
function out and store it. But the call can be hijacked, so I guess 
that's okay.

-- Rod Adams
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