spelunking in the meta-ops in STD.pm

2009-01-18 Thread Mark Lentczner
I was looking through STD.pm at the parsing of metaops. I was exploring to see if the legal metaops for a given operator could be notated on the operator chart. What I found was some oddness... op= (infix_postfix_meta_operator:sym<=>) The internal op

Method Postfix sleuthing...

2009-01-18 Thread Mark Lentczner
Here's some more sleuthing and differences between STD.pm and Synopsis 3: Methodcall precedence operators in STD.pm seem to include this set: .meth - single call .?meth - 0 or 1 call .+meth - 1 or more call .*meth - 0 or more call .=meth - mutating

Re: design of the Prelude (was Re: Rakudo leaving the Parrot nest)

2009-01-18 Thread ajr
The Prelude could be helpful for training. I've been trying to work out a logical path into Perl 6 for quite some time, not least because it's been a moving target. If there's a set of definitions that a computer can follow, humans should be able to move along that path too. -- Email and sh