On Tue, 4 May 2004, Luke Palmer wrote:
> Abhijit A. Mahabal writes:
> > Needing to know "the entire P6 grammar" isn't mouth watering.
>
> grammar Grammar::ReqNamed {
> is Grammar::Perl;
Ah, I see. That does answer my question. I had forgotten that grammers can
be inherited from and y
Abhijit A. Mahabal writes:
> As I try writing P6 programs I do find myself needing required named
> params, and I thought I'd like something like ++$named_req for myself as a
> shorthand for "+$named_req is required" or whatever is decided.
>
> Now, larry often says (only partly jokingly) "go writ
Dov Wasserman writes:
> Long-time lurker, first time poster. Dittos, kudos, etc.
Welcome aboard.
> Since in the rest of Perl 6, the '~' operator involves string
> representation, perhaps the standard +$foo marker should really be ~$foo:
> i.e., $foo only has a (string) name, not a numeric positio
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 03:41:58PM +0200, Aldo Calpini wrote:
: but: what if Animal does inherits from something else? what I would like
: to do (what I was trying to do with wrappers, that is) is to call the
: inherited constructor, then do something with the returned object.
: something like:
:
Abhijit A. Mahabal skribis 2004-05-04 10:27 (-0500):
> As I try writing P6 programs I do find myself needing required named
> params, and I thought I'd like something like ++$named_req for myself as a
> shorthand for "+$named_req is required" or whatever is decided.
What's wrong with just specifyi
As I try writing P6 programs I do find myself needing required named
params, and I thought I'd like something like ++$named_req for myself as a
shorthand for "+$named_req is required" or whatever is decided.
Now, larry often says (only partly jokingly) "go write your own grammar".
But I do not kno
On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 19:01, Larry Wall wrote:
> That would almost certainly fail with an error saying that it couldn't
> find your &new subroutine. The & sigil does not imply dispatch, and
> the default .new is inherited, not autogenerated, last I checked. :-)
ouch. too true.
so I guess my Ani
Long-time lurker, first time poster. Dittos, kudos, etc.
Back on the topic of required named parameters, I think John Siracusa's
initial post did a good job of separating the two concepts of parameter
mandate (required vs. optional) and parameter designation (by position vs.
by name). Each of thes
