Well, I actually thought about that one, but didn't think you'd go for something even longer. :-)

One extra character I can probably cope with :-)

As for whether it's in Perl 6, the only answer I can give is: "not yet". But by and large all-uppercase names are kinda sorta reserved for Perl to grow into. More or less. So maybe Our:: would be a better choice.

Your right that from an upward compatibility point of view Our:: (or My::) is clearly a better choice.

The downside is that it then looks so much like a normal fully qualified method call. Thanks to NEXT and SUPER using UPPERCASE provides a handy cue to the developer that some magic is happening.

Hmmm... Swings or roundabouts. Roundabouts or swings.

Oooohhh! Just had a sneaky idea.

"_" seems to be a valid package name. Is:

sub _::secret { ... };

$self->_::secret();

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to evil? Even shorter that MY::, doesn't look like a "normal" fully qualified method call and we get the whole "_" thang that people are already used to.

In reply to Re^4: Private method variations by adrianh
in thread Private method variations by adrianh

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