Re: Command-line args (weekly contribution to P6)

2010-05-27 Thread David Green
On 2010-05-26, at 8:52 am, Larry Wall wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 07:22:36AM -0700, jerry gay wrote: > : On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 00:53, Moritz Lenz wrote: > : > sub MAIN(:name(:$n)) > : > then $n has two names, 'name' and 'n', and we could consider all > one-letter > : > parameter names as s

r30878 -[S05] clarify :ratchet behavior with input from pmichaud++

2010-05-27 Thread pugs-commits
Author: sorear Date: 2010-05-28 02:10:37 +0200 (Fri, 28 May 2010) New Revision: 30878 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod Log: [S05] clarify :ratchet behavior with input from pmichaud++ Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod ===

Re: eqv and comparing buts

2010-05-27 Thread Jon Lang
Jon Lang wrote: > Right.  Still, there are times when duck-typing, flawed as it is, > might be exactly what is needed to resolve the problem at hand.  I > forget who or in what context, but I vaguely recall someone posting an > article here that proposed the use of £ in signatures as a modifier to

Re: eqv and comparing buts

2010-05-27 Thread Jon Lang
Darren Duncan wrote: > Larry Wall wrote: >> >> Or going the other direction, perhaps we're missing a primitive that >> can produce a data structure with the type information stripped, and >> then eqv might be able to determine structural equivalence between >> two canonicalized values. > > Often yo

Re: eqv and comparing buts

2010-05-27 Thread Darren Duncan
Larry Wall wrote: Or going the other direction, perhaps we're missing a primitive that can produce a data structure with the type information stripped, and then eqv might be able to determine structural equivalence between two canonicalized values. Often you still want to know the declared type