r25334 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-02-14 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2009-02-14 23:56:24 +0100 (Sat, 14 Feb 2009) New Revision: 25334 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod Log: [S02] allow *.foo to mean -> $obj { $obj.foo } Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod === --- docs/P

Re: r25328 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-02-14 Thread Leon Timmermans
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > > I think the point here is that on POSIX systems that gets you ioctl() and > fcntl(), and on non-POSIX systems either they don't exist or they throw > runtime errors. Aside from my earlier suggestion that non-POSIX systems > gen

Re: r25328 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-02-14 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2009 Feb 14, at 12:01, Leon Timmermans wrote an unending refrain of: Why should this do POSIX? What about non-POSIX operating systems? I think the point here is that on POSIX systems that gets you ioctl() and fcntl(), and on non-POSIX systems either they don't exist or they throw runtim

Re: r25328 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-02-14 Thread Leon Timmermans
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 6:38 AM, wrote: > +=head2 IO::Openable > + > +This role implies that the object can be connected to, or listened on. > + > +=over 4 > + > +=item open > + > + method Bool open(); > + > +Attempts to open the handle. Depending on the implementation, this could be > an open(

Re: r25329 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-02-14 Thread Mark J. Reed
That mention of $| is confusing, since $| has nothing to do with changing where output goes in p5. All it does is cause output to be autoflushed.. The Perl5 analog to $DEFOUT would seem to be the select() function... On 2/14/09, pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote: > Author: wayland > Date: 2009