Re: Why no "is ro"? (Re: Subroutine parameter with trait and default.)

2008-09-25 Thread Michael G Schwern
David Green wrote: > I bet we actually don't disagree much; I'm not really against "ro" -- > I'm just not against "readonly" because of its length. If I were > writing casually, I'd use "rw" and "ro"; formally, I'd use "read only" > and "read/write" (or even "readable and writable"). At an in-bet

Does colonpair notation produce a Bool or Int?

2008-09-25 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
Lines 46-52 of t/spec/S02-literals/pairs.t claims that the colonpair notation should produce a Bool instead of an Int: #?rakudo todo 'Adverbial pairs without should produce a Bool (not Int)' is f2(:a), "Bool", "':a' is a named"; #?rakudo todo '.() sub calls' is(f2.(:a),

Re: Split with negative limits, and other weirdnesses

2008-09-25 Thread Chris Davaz
If someone wants to make the final word on what the behavior should be I can go ahead and implement it. On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Jonathan Scott Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:38 AM, TSa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> HaloO, >> Moritz Lenz wrote: >> >>> In Per