Re: Context and coercion

2006-04-03 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 08:24:51PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: : There's some discussion about whether it should simply be: : : method as (Str) {...} : method as (Int) {...} : : maybe with an "is deep" thrown in for good measure, but we haven't : quite got there yet. Er, to have multiple of

Re: Context and coercion

2006-04-03 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 07:23:28PM -0700, Joshua Choi wrote: : Kudos to all on the Perl 6 mailing list, : : What's the conceptual difference (or relationship) between context and type : coercion? Is : $moose.prefix:<~> : the same as : $moose.coerce:(Str) : for instance? No difference. :

Context and coercion

2006-04-03 Thread Joshua Choi
Kudos to all on the Perl 6 mailing list, What's the conceptual difference (or relationship) between context and type coercion? Is $moose.prefix:<~> the same as $moose.coerce:(Str) for instance? And forgive my brain, but how would you nicely define coercion in a class? Like, could you spar