Re: Why pass by reference?

2009-06-17 Thread John M. Dlugosz
TSa Thomas.Sandlass-at-vts-systems.de |Perl 6| wrote: HaloO, Matthew Walton wrote: If a user of your API contrives to make it change while you're running, that's their own foot they've just shot, because they can look at the signature and know the semantics of the parameter passing being used a

r27112 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-06-17 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2009-06-18 01:36:07 +0200 (Thu, 18 Jun 2009) New Revision: 27112 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S09-data.pod Log: [S09] add missing rat native types Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S09-data.pod === --- docs/Perl6/Spec/S0

r27106 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-06-17 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2009-06-17 21:08:15 +0200 (Wed, 17 Jun 2009) New Revision: 27106 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod Log: [S02] define utf constrained buffer types [S02] nail down canonical name for instantiated types to use ident adverbial (MyRole[MyType] still instantiates, but isn't

r27103 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-06-17 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2009-06-17 17:26:04 +0200 (Wed, 17 Jun 2009) New Revision: 27103 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S29-functions.pod Log: [S29-functions] fix some misplaced types Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S29-functions.pod === --- do