Larry , through S-ro commitbot:
> +Since a C, unlike a C, is mutable, C<.pick> works
> +directly on the C, modifying it in place. You must copy
> +the C first if you don't want it modified in place.
This violates Least Surprise for me. An Array is also mutable, but it
doesn't get modified in plac
Author: masak
Date: 2009-12-17 11:45:37 +0100 (Thu, 17 Dec 2009)
New Revision: 29352
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod
docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Basics.pod
Log:
kill off REJECTS
It was generally agreed on #perl6 that the REJECTS method doesn't add
anything to the functio
Author: masak
Date: 2009-12-17 11:46:33 +0100 (Thu, 17 Dec 2009)
New Revision: 29353
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod
docs/Perl6/Spec/S09-data.pod
Log:
fixed one typo and one ws inconsistency
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod
==
At 17:10 -0500 2009-12-16, Dave Whipp wrote:
>define the return value more formally, something like:
>
> our multi method polar (Complex $nim: --> [ Real $mag where 0..Inf,
>Real $angle where -¼ ..^ ¼ ]) is export { ... }
>
In complex analysis it is often legitimate to work with numbers
where th
At 19:46 -0500 2009-12-16, Dave Whipp wrote:
yary wrote:
At 00:15 +0100 12/17/09, Moritz Lenz wrote:
Not quite, .abs returns one of the polar coordinates (the magnitude), so
only a method is missing that returns the angle.
Any ideas for a good name?
Would a method called "phi" with a un
Moritz Lenz wrote:
Dave Whipp wrote:
[cut] Contrast with Rat which has both separate accessors and the
"nude" method (a name that could possibly be improved to avoid
adult-content filters)
suggestions welcome.
Attempting to generalize: what we want is an operator that extracts a
Seq of val
Dave Whipp wrote:
> Moritz Lenz wrote:
>>
>> Dave Whipp wrote:
>>>
>>> [cut] Contrast with Rat which has both separate accessors and the "nude"
>>> method (a name that could possibly be improved to avoid adult-content
>>> filters)
>>
>> suggestions welcome.
>
> Attempting to generalize: what we wan
Author: lwall
Date: 2009-12-17 18:18:31 +0100 (Thu, 17 Dec 2009)
New Revision: 29357
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S04-control.pod
Log:
[S04] 'continue' confuses both C and Perl programmers, so rename to 'nobreak'
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S04-control.pod
=
Jon Lang wrote:
my ($num, $denom) = $num.^attr; # $num.WHAT == Ratio;
my ($mag, $phase) = Complex::Polar($z).^attr;
my ($re, $im) = Complex::Cartesian($z).^attr;
my ($x, $y) = $vector.^attr »·« ( [1, 0], [0, 1] );
If I'm reading this right, the .^attr is exposing implementation details
Dave Whipp wrote:
> Jon Lang wrote:
>>
>> my ($num, $denom) = $num.^attr; # $num.WHAT == Ratio;
>> my ($mag, $phase) = Complex::Polar($z).^attr;
>> my ($re, $im) = Complex::Cartesian($z).^attr;
>> my ($x, $y) = $vector.^attr »·« ( [1, 0], [0, 1] );
>
> If I'm reading this right, the .^attr is e
At 14:54 -0500 2009-12-17, Jon Lang wrote:
>Dave Whipp wrote:
>And really, my whole point is that the implementation details are
>(conceptually) the only thing that distinguishes Complex::Polar from
>Complex::Cartesian.
All though both e^(i ¼) and e^(i 3 ¼) evaluate to -1 + 0i
it is often us
At 11:54 -0800 12/17/09, Jon Lang wrote:
>> And I think there's a Math error in the 4th line: you don't need the
>> components of a vector to do a dot product with that vector -- so it is just
>>
>> my ($x, $y) = $vector «·« ( [1, 0], [0, 1] );
>
>True enough.
>
>> Which makes me wonder if all of
Doug McNutt wrote:
my ($x, $y) = $vector «·« ( [1, 0], [0, 1] );
After a while I became resigned to the fact that dot and cross
products were not what was being offered. Instead a product of two
vectors was to be simply a component by component multiply that
produced another "vector" of the s
Todd Olson wrote:
At 14:54 -0500 2009-12-17, Jon Lang wrote:
And really, my whole point is that the implementation details are
(conceptually) the only thing that distinguishes Complex::Polar from
Complex::Cartesian.
All though both e^(i ¼) and e^(i 3 ¼) evaluate to -1 + 0i
it is often u
Author: lwall
Date: 2009-12-18 03:57:14 +0100 (Fri, 18 Dec 2009)
New Revision: 29364
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Containers.pod
Log:
[S32/Containers] change mutating .pick to be separate .grab method
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Containers.pod
==
Author: lwall
Date: 2009-12-18 05:05:15 +0100 (Fri, 18 Dec 2009)
New Revision: 29365
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S04-control.pod
docs/Perl6/Spec/S29-functions.pod
Log:
[S04] rename break/nobreak to succeed/proceed
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S04-control.pod
Author: lwall
Date: 2009-12-18 05:28:09 +0100 (Fri, 18 Dec 2009)
New Revision: 29366
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod
docs/Perl6/Spec/S12-objects.pod
docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Basics.pod
Log:
[S03] rename prefix: to prefix: to avoid having to explain the
valence diffe
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