Perl5 has the notion of contexts, where an expression may behave very
differently in string, boolean, or list context. Perl6 intends to expand
that notion. What if the whole context notion were moved down into
Parrot? Every function call and every MMD dispatch could have an
additional context param
Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> In Python terms, __add__ is but one of several methods that strings
> have. Other common ones include index, join, lower, replace, and split.
I just used __add__ as an example. Of course all (differing) vtables and
methods would need
Leopold Toetsch wrote:
Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 2:03 PM -0400 10/11/04, Sam Ruby wrote:
Separate op won't work for Python. Consider:
def f(x,y): return x+y
print f(5,6) # 11
print f("a","b") # ab
Oh, sure it'd work, if you had an ADD_OR_CONCATENATE op with an
appropriate MMD table. :)
Yes
Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 2:03 PM -0400 10/11/04, Sam Ruby wrote:
Separate op won't work for Python. Consider:
def f(x,y): return x+y
print f(5,6) # 11
print f("a","b") # ab
Oh, sure it'd work, if you had an ADD_OR_CONCATENATE op with an
appropriate MMD table. :)
Yes, *but" we have to do t
