Oddly, I chose the world's worst subject. I meant to go back and add "^methods returning list of Subs?" but failed.
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:16 PM, perl6 via RT <perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org>wrote: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > I'm working in a firewalled environment today where I can't get access to > git, so here's what I see in 2009-07 downloaded from > http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads > > S12 says: > > "The .^methods method returns method-descriptors containing: > > name the name of the method > signature the parameters of the method > as the coercion type of the method > multi whether duplicate names are allowed > do the method body" > > > > That doesn't tell me exactly what I'm looking for, but I tried: > > > say Str.^methods[0] > sprintf > > Which looks suspiciously like a single string, but just in case, I tried: > > > say Str.^methods[0]<signature> > get_pmc_keyed() not implemented in class 'Sub' > in Main (<unknown>:1) > > say Str.^methods[0].^signature > Method 'signature' not found for invocant of class 'P6metaclass' > > say Str.^methods[0].signature > No signature found > > That last one looks more promising, but still not quite as advertised. > Oddly > enough if I try another one of the "descriptors" listed, it gets stranger: > > > say Str.^methods[0].name > pred > > eh? The rest of the names (as, multi, do) don't seem to exist at all. I > expect that this is because I'm not actually looking at a "descriptor" at > all, but rather a Sub object that stringifies itself to "sprintf". Is that > a > bug in Rakudo or S12? > >
