Re: clarifying the spec for 'ref'

2006-08-27 Thread Richard Hainsworth
With regard to the 'square' 'isa' 'rectangle' or vice versa question, surely it is for the programmer to decide depending on the situation. Though the problem is how to define criteria for trapping problems at compile time. Regarding classes and roles, and in fact multiple inheritance in gene

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r11504 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-27 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Sun Aug 27 22:52:36 2006 New Revision: 11504 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: Clarification on syntactic mapping of and to ('a','b') and ('c'). Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod

Re: Same-named arguments

2006-08-27 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 8/26/06, Audrey Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mostly, it's that func('&x' => 1) requires a bit too much typing, and also makes it hard for func() to change its signature later on to accept things other than Code. Allow me to make an immodest proposal. Have named parameter passing look lik

Re: Same-named arguments

2006-08-27 Thread Michael Snoyman
Mostly, it's that func('&x' => 1) requires a bit too much typing, and also makes it hard for func() to change its signature later on to accept things other than Code. I was discussing this with a friend of mine (Eric Livak), and he suggested making the sigil on the name optional for disambigua