Re: Provisional Foo [Was: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r9176 - doc/trunk/design/syn]

2006-05-11 Thread Smylers
Larry Wall writes: > Yes, the false value is False now, just as the true value is not True. It's not? I thought somebody had just said that it was? > The reason for changing them is to avoid confusion with the built-in > true() function, Makes sense. > So arguably, we could have a rule or pol

Re: Provisional Foo [Was: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r9176 - doc/trunk/design/syn]

2006-05-11 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:24:24AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > function as a subset type. Constant functions are naturally 0-ary, > and in C culture tend to be uppercase anyway. So arguably, we could > have a rule or policy that 0-ary functions are generally uppercase, > not just the constant one

Provisional Foo [Was: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r9176 - doc/trunk/design/syn]

2006-05-11 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 07:44:54AM -0400, Elyse M. Grasso wrote: : Is "but false" now spelled "but False"? If not, if there a reason for the : asymmetry? Yes, the false value is False now, just as the true value is not True. The reason for changing them is to avoid confusion with the built-in tru

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r9176 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-05-11 Thread Elyse M. Grasso
On Thursday 11 May 2006 5:52 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * S06: "but true" is now spelled as "but True" > > ... > return $error but false if $error; > -return 0 but true; > +return 0 but True; > } > > Properties are predeclared as roles and implemented

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r9176 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-05-11 Thread autrijus
Author: autrijus Date: Thu May 11 02:52:17 2006 New Revision: 9176 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: * S06: "but true" is now spelled as "but True" Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod == --- doc/trunk/des