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Re: strictly no indirect object syntax?

On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 08:50:00AM -0700, Jan Dubois wrote:
> 
> While not indirect object syntax, I wonder if we shouldn't also do
> something about "Car::->new" vs. "Car->new".  The latter actually
> means Car()->new when Car() is defined in the current namespace,
> so it has a similar gotcha as indirect object syntax:
> 
>   sub Foo::method { print "Foo method\n" }
>   sub Bar::method { print "Bar method\n" }
> 
>   sub Foo { return bless [] => "Bar" }
> 
>   Foo->method;     # Prints "Bar method"
>   Foo::->method;   # Prints "Foo method"
>   Foo()->method;   # Prints "Bar method"
Yes, but the commonly followed standard is that subroutine names are 
in all lowercase. While I agree that in theory the gotcha is similar,
in practise, it will be far less of an issue.
> I think the "Foo->method" call should generate a warning that it is
> being resolved as "Foo()->method", just like 
Well, only if it *is* resolved to "Foo()->method", that is, only warn
if there's an actual Foo() subroutine that will be called. Otherwise
the warning will trigger too many false positives to be of any use.
Abigail

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