On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 02:18:46PM -0800, jn...@jnthn.net via RT wrote: > On Wed Dec 31 08:44:02 2008, masak wrote: > > Rakudo r34703: > > > > $ perl6 -e 'my $year; $year //= 2009' > > get_iter() not implemented in class 'Integer' > > > > This looks like a misparse, interpreting '//= 2009' as '// =2009'. > > > Tried just adding it to generate as a meta-op, then realized that we're > using pasttype def_or for // so there's no infix://. So I hand-rolled a > //= for now, but are we really going to get away with using pasttype for > //? I'm thinking that // will want to be overloadable, so needs to > become a multi infix:<//>?
It also needs to short-circuit, which is why we currently use a pasttype and not a simple multi. Beyond that, many of the infixes are switching from left associative to list associative precedence, which means we'll be revisiting this when the dust settles anyway. Pm
