Re: Quick questions on classes re S12

[Jonathan Worthington <jonathan@jnthn.net>]

Hi,

Answers as I understand things...

John M. Dlugosz wrote:
> 1) How do you declare a private method?  I see how you call one, but 
> not how to define one.
my method foo { ... }

> 1b) Is the intent that $!foo without an explicit invocant refers to 
> self, as opposed to $.bar or .bar which refers to $_ ?
$.bar also refers to self. You'd use just .bar to do a call on $_.

> 2) re: has $brain;     # also declares $!brain;
> Does that mean that $brain by itself refers to $self!brain ?
$!brain refers to the underlying storage location, and this declaration 
introduces $brain as a lexical alias to that.
Thanks,

Jonathan