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in reply to Re: Why breaking can() is acceptable
in thread Why breaking can() is acceptable
If a package/class has an AUTOLOAD sub, will you be able to decline to handle a method, but say "I don't want to handle this, but keep looking in the inheritance tree"? Say for some reason, you want your class to handle get_* methods, and the next class in ISA (or whatever the Perl 6 equivalent is), to handle set_* methods; nevermind how good/bad of a design this is :) |
Re: Re: Re: Why breaking can() is acceptable
by TimToady (Parson) on Apr 07, 2004 at 02:12 UTC
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Yes, you can always call "next METHOD" to pass the buck to the
next method in the list of candidates. Though an AUTOLOAD
is going to be pretty far down the pecking order, because Perl will prefer all declared methods over all wildcard methods, and autoloading is one form of wildcarding. So only an AUTOLOAD in a parent class (or a sibling class, since these are "next" semantics) is possible in the remaining list of candidates.
Though as for get_* and set_* methods, those would be non-standard in Perl 6. Perl's accessor methods will not be split into get and set methods. Rather, they'll be single methods that are lvaluable if you want to allow setting. | [reply] |
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