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Dan Sugalski  
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 More options Apr 23 2004, 8:42 am
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From: d...@sidhe.org (Dan Sugalski)
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 08:42:28 -0400
Local: Fri, Apr 23 2004 8:42 am
Subject: Re: A12: The dynamic nature of a class
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At 11:29 PM +0100 4/22/04, Simon Cozens wrote:

>d...@sidhe.org (Dan Sugalski) writes:
>>      my Joe $foo;

>>  emits the code that, at runtime, finds the class ID of whatever Joe's
>>  in scope, instantiates a new object of that class

>Uh, is that right? I don't think that "my" is a constructor, more a typing
>declarator.

Since any type potentially has assignment behaviour, it has to be a
constructor. For example, if you've got the Joe class set such that
assigning to it prints the contents to stderr, this:

    my Joe $foo;
    $foo = 12;

should print 12 to stderr. Can't do that if you've not put at least a
minimally constructed thing in the slot.
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                                         Dan

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