HaloO,
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
our ::T sub foo (T $a, T $b)
without needing to introduce a new twigil syntax for type variables.
My reading as well. But I would write it sub foo (::T $a, T $b --> T)
for better indicating that ::T is taken from the parameters.
(Although I would wonder if the whole ::-prefix thing is asking for
trouble; it looks like scoping to me.)
Scoping? ::T is surely scoped for the body of foo only.
To me the foo looks like a template sub and I wonder how it is
instanciated with different types. Since type parameters are
provided with [] it should be foo[Int], foo[Str] and the like.
I wonder further if that could also be written foo of Str like
with Array of Int etc.
my foo of Int &intfoo;
my Int $x := intfoo(3,2); # type correct
Also I wonder if Perl 6 can support all foo[::T] with a single
generic body where other languages have to generate different
code for each ::T. The type inferencer could also find out a
lot of constraints for ::T from the body. E.g.
sub foo (::T $a, T $b --> T)
{
if $a != 0 && $b != 0 # ::T does Compare[Num]
{
return $a * $b; # ::T does Arithmetic
}
...
}
Regards, TSa.
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