Damian Conway:
# > So, in the � operator, the filter is the adverb:
# >
# > $sum = � @costs : {$^_ < 1000};
# >
# > Does that mean that in the built-in print, the file
# handle is the only
# > "in-band" argument, and all the actual items to be
# printed are merely
# > adverbs?
#
# Yep. Although the "in-band"/"out-of-band" distinction is only one of
# convention.
#
# In reality, Perl 6 will merely distinguish between those
# arguments that
# come before a colon (and are bound to parameters before the
# colon in the
# parameter list), and those arguments that come after a colon (and are
# bound to parameters after the colon in the parameter list).
So, does that mean that, to keep C<new FooBar: ($baz, $frob)> and
C<FooBar->new($baz, $frob)> doing the same thing, the object will always
come in before the colon? Is unary . gonna refer to the "one and only"
argument before the colon?
class FooBar;
method new($class : *@args) {
my $obj;
$obj=.bless; #transmogrified into $obj=$class.bless
}
method serialize($me : IO::Handle $fh) {
#$me is the only eccentricy I have left from my early work in (ugh) VB
print $fh: .quux; #same as $me.quux
print $fh: .gerflonkurator; #same as $me.gerflonkurator
}
Cool.
--Brent Dax
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Configure pumpking for Perl 6
They *will* pay for what they've done.
