Thanks, yes that's one of the first approaches I looked at, but there's
still that extra "does" step before you can say $x.tellall;
On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 2:39 PM, Curt Tilmes wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 5:30 PM Larry Wall wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 11:40:13AM -0700, Joseph Bre
There's a certain aspect of "there is nothing so permanent as a temporary
hack" here.
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 12:19 AM Joseph Brenner wrote:
> Larry Wall wrote:
>
> > Joseph Brenner wrote:
> >> Sounds good, thanks.
>
> > Well, yes, *sounds* good. :-)
> > Monkey patching is allowed but disc
Larry Wall wrote:
> Joseph Brenner wrote:
>> Sounds good, thanks.
> Well, yes, *sounds* good. :-)
> Monkey patching is allowed but discouraged in Perl 6, because Ruby.
But I *like* being evil.
But as I was trying to make clear, it's not something I'm planning on
using in production (unlik
On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 5:30 PM Larry Wall wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 11:40:13AM -0700, Joseph Brenner wrote:
> : Sounds good, thanks.
>
> Well, yes, *sounds* good. :-)
>
> Monkey patching is allowed but discouraged in Perl 6, because Ruby.
>
Mixed in roles:
https://docs.perl6.org/lan
On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 11:40:13AM -0700, Joseph Brenner wrote:
: Sounds good, thanks.
Well, yes, *sounds* good. :-)
Monkey patching is allowed but discouraged in Perl 6, because Ruby.
Larry
Sounds good, thanks.
(I see the term is "augment"-- someone told me it was "extend", and I
couldn't find that anywhere.)
On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 11:35 AM, Brandon Allbery
wrote:
> "use MONKEY-TYPING;" and then you have "augment" https://docs.perl6.
> org/syntax/augment.html
>
> On Sat, Sep 22,
"use MONKEY-TYPING;" and then you have "augment"
https://docs.perl6.org/syntax/augment.html
On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 2:33 PM Joseph Brenner wrote:
> I was just wondering if there's any way to extend an existing
> class in perl 6. I'd like to be able to do things like drop
> a custom debugging me
I was just wondering if there's any way to extend an existing
class in perl 6. I'd like to be able to do things like drop
a custom debugging method in Any that would then be available
on everything.
Note: I'm talking about adding something to an existing class
("monkeypatching") as opposed to sub
