Re^2: How will you use state declared variables in Perl6?

Effectively, %seen becomes a Class variable

Not so! A class variable is accessible to all instances of a class. A state variable (assuming it behaves more or less exactly like a static variable in C/C++) is visible only within the declaring function, and if that function is a method, then it is restricted to the instance as well. It's actually a tighter scope than member variables with the same persistence.

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Re^3: How will you use state declared variables in Perl6? by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jul 08, 2005 at 21:25 UTC
The scope is constrainted to the method, but the potential to affect change to it is not! Any instance that can call the method can change it's value. Any method in the same class can call the method, therefore any instance of the class can call the method, and unless it is somehow constrained, any instance of any subclass can call a method that will call a that method and so change it's state. Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal? "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". The "good enough" maybe good enough for the now, and perfection maybe unobtainable, but that should not preclude us from striving for perfection, when time, circumstance or desire allow.	[reply]

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Re^3: How will you use state declared variables in Perl6?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jul 08, 2005 at 21:25 UTC

The scope is constrainted to the method, but the potential to affect change to it is not!

Any instance that can call the method can change it's value. Any method in the same class can call the method, therefore any instance of the class can call the method, and unless it is somehow constrained, any instance of any subclass can call a method that will call a that method and so change it's state.

Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.

Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal?

"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".

The "good enough" maybe good enough for the now, and perfection maybe unobtainable, but that should not preclude us from striving for perfection, when time, circumstance or desire allow.

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