Re: stolen uint's

2020-01-30 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 2020-01-30 08:11, Andy Bach wrote: I’m STILL waiting for you to show me ONE example of a `uint` turning into `int`. Not `Int`, via auto-boxing, `int`, via who-knows-what. $ p6 'my uint8 $u; say $u.^name;' Int Did you not notice the capital "I" in both his request and your code output? H

Re: stolen uint's

2020-01-30 Thread Veesh Goldman
Hi Todd, A couple of things. One is that Int and int are totally unrelated concepts. Captial Int is a high level concept, which has a type constraint related to it, and belongs to raku's object system. Lowercase int is a special case, it's only for the interface with C, and it represents a low leve