Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r30620 - trunk/docs/pdds/draft

[Allison Randal <allison@perl.org>]

Bob Rogers wrote:
> So you prefer the plain term "method" for "method that is not a
> multimethod"?  That seems prone to confusion.  What do you suggest for
> the generic term?
It's not prone to confusion. By definition, a "method" is a invoked on a 
single invocant (an instance of the class that contains the method).
> By "multi" do you mean "multisub" or "multimethod"?  Either way, it
> seems there is something missing from your enumeration above.
A multi (that is a MultiSub PMC) can be invoked as either a sub or a 
method. There is no distinction between a "multisub" and a 
"multimethod". There are only multis, which are dispatched based on an 
evaluation of multiple invocants.
Allison