Docathon (was Re: State of Perl 6 Backends)

2006-06-23 Thread Uri Guttman
> "AT" == Audrey Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AT> Indeed. So instead of having the implementions define the language, AT> this time around the specs, and tests, and API documentations, need AT> to be adhered closely by implementors, which is why we're all talking AT> together in #

Re: Can foo("123") dispatch to foo(Int) (was: Mutil Method Questions)

2006-06-23 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 09:11:44PM +0300, Markus Laire wrote: > And what about other types? > e.g. if String can't ever be "best candidate" for Int, then does that > mean that neither can Int ever be "best candidate" for Num, because > they are different types? Well, I think Num and Int *aren't* d

Can foo("123") dispatch to foo(Int) (was: Mutil Method Questions)

2006-06-23 Thread Markus Laire
I'm sending this also to perl6-language, in case someone there knows an answer to this. On 6/23/06, Jonathan Scott Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't think so. I think the "best candidate" prose is about choosing from types that have been specified, not autoconverting between types such tha

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r9717 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-06-23 Thread audreyt
Author: audreyt Date: Fri Jun 23 07:55:16 2006 New Revision: 9717 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: * S06: Correct an extra comma in the comment: for @foo, sub { ... } should be written as for @foo sub { ... } if the sub is to be taken as the loop body. Modified: doc/tru