Re: Context and coercion

2006-04-03 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 08:24:51PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: : There's some discussion about whether it should simply be: : : method as (Str) {...} : method as (Int) {...} : : maybe with an "is deep" thrown in for good measure, but we haven't : quite got there yet. Er, to have multiple of

Re: Context and coercion

2006-04-03 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 07:23:28PM -0700, Joshua Choi wrote: : Kudos to all on the Perl 6 mailing list, : : What's the conceptual difference (or relationship) between context and type : coercion? Is : $moose.prefix:<~> : the same as : $moose.coerce:(Str) : for instance? No difference. :

Context and coercion

2006-04-03 Thread Joshua Choi
Kudos to all on the Perl 6 mailing list, What's the conceptual difference (or relationship) between context and type coercion? Is $moose.prefix:<~> the same as $moose.coerce:(Str) for instance? And forgive my brain, but how would you nicely define coercion in a class? Like, could you spar

Re: curly-quotes

2006-04-03 Thread Larry Wall
On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 02:32:03AM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote: : Given perl6's use of unicode as a basis, could we get "curly quotes", : both single and double, to do the same things that straight quotes do? Depends on what "same thing" means, I suppose. Looks like you want them directional, whic

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r8556 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-03 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Mon Apr 3 15:59:38 2006 New Revision: 8556 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod Log: Fixed P5isms in P6 code. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod(

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r8555 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-03 Thread autrijus
Author: autrijus Date: Mon Apr 3 15:48:30 2006 New Revision: 8555 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: * S06: Make it clear that concat-means-concat for duplicated named arguments, and that it is possible to bind a tuple into a scalar. sub fun (Int @x) { ... } f

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r8553 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-03 Thread Luke Palmer
On 4/3/06, Amos Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is perl 6, right? > my %hash; $hash{foo}{bar} - shouldn't it be %hash{foo}{bar}? %hash even. Luke

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r8553 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-03 Thread Amos Robinson
This is perl 6, right? my %hash; $hash{foo}{bar} - shouldn't it be %hash{foo}{bar}? On 4/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Author: autrijus > Date: Mon Apr 3 05:47:07 2006 > New Revision: 8553 > > Modified: >doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod > > Log: > * S09: Leo pointed out the

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r8554 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-03 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Mon Apr 3 11:08:54 2006 New Revision: 8554 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod Log: Mark Biggar points out that rule closure section had embedded closure verbiage. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod =

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r8553 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-03 Thread autrijus
Author: autrijus Date: Mon Apr 3 05:47:07 2006 New Revision: 8553 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod Log: * S09: Leo pointed out the paragraph on autovivifiction is still mentioning references. Replace it with modern wording (surface semantics stays unchanged) Modified: doc/trunk/d