Building the documentation that will ship with Perl 6 and Pugs

2005-12-30 Thread Andrew Savige
[Note: Posted to both perl6-language and perl6-documentation. Since perl6-documentation is no longer advertised, I assume follow ups should be posted to perl6-language only]. When Audrey gave a recent talk to Sydney.pm, she pointed out some deficiencies in the current Pugs/Perl 6 documentation and

Re: relationship between slurpy parameters and named args?

2005-12-30 Thread Rob Kinyon
On 12/30/05, Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stuart Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 29/12/05, Austin Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So, is there a conceptual connection between imposing named argument > >> interpretation on pairs in an arg list and slurping up the end of

Re: relationship between slurpy parameters and named args?

2005-12-30 Thread Piers Cawley
Stuart Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 29/12/05, Austin Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So, is there a conceptual connection between imposing named argument >> interpretation on pairs in an arg list and slurping up the end of a >> parameter list? Are there other meanings of prefix:<*> t