Author: masak Date: 2009-01-08 07:36:06 +0100 (Thu, 08 Jan 2009) New Revision: 24807
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S29-functions.pod Log: [S29] added slice and hash contextualizers, reordered item and list Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S29-functions.pod =================================================================== --- docs/Perl6/Spec/S29-functions.pod 2009-01-08 06:15:11 UTC (rev 24806) +++ docs/Perl6/Spec/S29-functions.pod 2009-01-08 06:36:06 UTC (rev 24807) @@ -1757,20 +1757,42 @@ also knows its encoding preferences. (These are knowable in the lexical scope via the $?NF and $?ENC compile-time constants).) +=item item + + our Item multi item ( $item ) + +Forces generic Item context on its argument, and returns it. + =item list our List multi list ( *...@list ) Forces List Context on it's arguments, and returns them. +=item slice -=item item + our List multi slice ( *...@list ) - our Item multi item ( $item ) +Forces the argument list to be evaluated in slice context. +(Slices are considered to be potentially multidimensional in Perl 6.) +A list of C<Capture>s will be transformed into a list of lists. +Equivalent to C<@@()> (except that empty C<@@()> means C<@@($/)>, while +empty C<slice()> means a null slice). -Forces generic Item context on its argument, and returns it. +=item hash +The C<hash> contextualizer + our Hash multi hash ( *...@list ) + +Forces the argument list to be evaluated in hash context. +The expression is evaluated in list context (flattening any C<Capture>s), +then a hash will be created from the list, taken as a list of C<Pair>s. +(Any element in the list that is not a C<Pair> will pretend to be a key +and grab the next value in the list as its value.) Equivalent to +C<%()> (except that empty C<%()> means C<%($/)>, while +empty C<hash()> means an empty hash). + =item :16, :8, :2, :10 our Num multi prefix:<:16> ( Str $hexstr )
