We knew who we were arguing with, but (as often happens) the argument seems to be over a misconception.

I was objecting to creating a method to call methods against a list. There are reasons to call a method on all things in a list, I have done it for any number of reasons. A sample reason why you might is some sort of notification system. All objects that have said they are watching some event have to have a logging method called on them. But the built-ins in Perl resolve the problem adequately enough that I see no reason to build a method especially to do it.

I didn't realize that you were arguing just for the utility of calling a method on a list of things. And so we were talking past each other.

I'm glad to have that resolved. ;-)

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Method Calls on multiple objects by tilly
in thread Method Calls on multiple objects by Limbic~Region

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