We really are not communicating at all, are we?
It says "--> Positional". Positional is a role specifying what to do with
[]. Positional is what knows what to do with [], so words() and lines() and
everything else that produces a Positional doesn't have to know that.
This is more or less the *definition* of Positional. It's not up to the
documentation of words() to also tell you the documentation of Positional;
it told you to look there.
And there is more to Positional than just knowing what to do with [], and
that also is not something words() or its documentation should tell you. Or
does every documentation page have to incorporate the whole Perl 6
documentation? ("You might decide to pass this a Str, so I guess I have to
explain in detail what a Str is now just in case"?)
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 6:05 PM ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote:
> On 9/26/18 2:40 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> > Do you really think every function that produces a "list" has built into
> > it secret knowledge of how you would index a list? They just produce a
> > "Positional" or "Seq" or "List", etc. and *those* know what to do with
> > []. The function doesn't even need to say it's doing that; that's to
> > produce better error messages, not "wire what a list is into me".
>
> Hi Brandon,
>
> I know how to use the function and use it all the time. My
> frustration is with the documentation.
>
> How did this
>
> multi method words(Str:D $input: $limit = Inf --> Positional)
>
> get to what you describe above?
>
> Yours in confusion,
> -T
>
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