On 12/25/20 8:10 AM, Ralph Mellor wrote:
On 12/23/20 4:28 PM, Ralph Mellor wrote:
> If a method does not explicitly specify its invocant type, it is set
> to the type of the enclosing class.
But it does not specify an invocant. It just leaves it blank
This is how it works in Raku source c
Todd,
Some of what you have said in this email list over the years has been
very valuable. You ask questions that get some very illuminating
answers. I wrote a Module just for you (although I' still trying to get
it to work on Windows) and it inspired me to look much more deeply at
GTK::Simpl
❤️
> On 28 Dec 2020, at 13:54, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
>
> Todd,
>
> Some of what you have said in this email list over the years has been very
> valuable. You ask questions that get some very illuminating answers. I wrote
> a Module just for you (although I' still trying to get it to work
"Definition of invoke
transitive verb
1a : to petition for help or support
b : to appeal to or cite as authority
2 : to call forth by incantation : conjure
3 : to make an earnest request for : solicit
4 : to put into effect or operation : implement
I just went to the page at docs.raku.org on multi-line comments, to
suggest a couple of clarifying edits. The pencil icon invoked a 404
from GitHub.
When one goes to make a fix, and the fixer is broken, it's a bit
recursive. Can anyone cure problem #1, so I can get to step #2? :-)*
On 12/28/20, E
https://github.com/Raku/doc/issues/3753
> On 28 Dec 2020, at 16:23, Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I just went to the page at docs.raku.org on multi-line comments, to
> suggest a couple of clarifying edits. The pencil icon invoked a 404
> from GitHub.
>
> When one goes to make a f
This seems to have been fixed already.
The speed this problem was noted and fixed demonstrates (a) the
importance given to documentation, and (b) the diligence of JJ.
Kudos to JJ and those who helped fix the problem.
Richard
On 28/12/2020 15:35, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
https://github.com
P.R. submitted for step #2
On 12/28/20, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
> This seems to have been fixed already.
>
> The speed this problem was noted and fixed demonstrates (a) the
> importance given to documentation, and (b) the diligence of JJ.
>
> Kudos to JJ and those who helped fix the problem.
>
Been thinking about this, and checked out the Rakudo repository to peek
into the source.
Allowing Failure as a return always makes sense to me– every block needs to
be capable of passing along a failure, that's how the language is designed.
On the other hand, Nil is not a Failure. Conceptually it
The closest to null is actually an undefined type object
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020, 3:36 PM yary wrote:
> Been thinking about this, and checked out the Rakudo repository to peek
> into the source.
>
> Allowing Failure as a return always makes sense to me– every block needs
> to be capable of passing
On 12/28/20 7:11 AM, Parrot Raiser wrote:
"Definition of invoke
transitive verb
1a : to petition for help or support
b : to appeal to or cite as authority
2 : to call forth by incantation : conjure
3 : to make an earnest request for : solicit
4 :
On 12/28/20 4:54 AM, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
Todd,
Some of what you have said in this email list over the years has been
very valuable. You ask questions that get some very illuminating
answers. I wrote a Module just for you (although I' still trying to get
it to work on Windows) and it ins
On 12/28/20 4:54 AM, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
So please take what I say now as a plea for you to adapt a little, not
to get pissed off with us even though you do seem to have pissed some of
us off.
You have very definite ideas about what the documentation should and
shouldn't be. You have st
On 12/28/20 4:54 AM, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
But they may be useful to someone. Even worse, it is not possible for me
to find a collection of your keepers because they are in posts to this
email list, and I am not going to search through thousands of emails for
your keepers on something whose
On 12/28/20 10:57 PM, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
On 12/28/20 4:54 AM, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
So please take what I say now as a plea for you to adapt a little,
not to get pissed off with us even though you do seem to have pissed
some of us off.
You have very definite ideas about w
On 12/28/20 11:29 PM, Peter Scott wrote:
On 12/28/20 10:57 PM, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
On 12/28/20 4:54 AM, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
So please take what I say now as a plea for you to adapt a little,
not to get pissed off with us even though you do seem to have pissed
some of us o
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