Autrijus Tang wrote:
I think the former is simpler ("always use coercion"), but the latter
makes it possible to define various other things that, although not
isomorphic with builtin numbers, can still use arithmetic operators.
I haven't understood what Larry meant with hard constraint but I would
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 04:02:16AM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote:
: Hmm. How does this play with Larry's suggestion:
:
: I suppose one could even install a colon on the end of the return
: type to request that explicitly.
:
: Does it mean that:
:
: multi sub foo(Foo: Bar: Baz:) returns
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 02:45:58PM +, Luke Palmer wrote:
> Just for the folks not following along on IRC, I don't think I implied
> that. But Autrijus apparently inferred it :-).
My apologies. It's a misparse on my part.
> Anyway, there is no MMD whatsoever on the final level, so that:
>
>
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 07:26:54AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> It does seem that the signature that provides more information should
> be "rewarded" for that somehow. Maybe it's most useful if non-invocant
> args (or non-invocant-YET args, in this case) are just considered to
> be at "Any" distance
Autrijus Tang wrote:
So does it mean that a "3-story" multisub with two colons will
always win against one with one colon?
multi sub foo (Any $x: Str $y: Str $z, Str $w) { 1 }
multi sub foo (Str $x, Str $y: Str $z, Str $w) { 2 }
say foo("x", "y", "z", "w"); # 1
Is the final level ($z an
On 5/17/05, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 10:10:22PM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote:
> : Is the final level ($z and $w) participating in the MMD at all
> : as tiebreakers? Luke mentioned that in all levels but the final
> : one, Manhattan distance (sum of inheritance
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 10:10:22PM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote:
: On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 07:00:23AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
: > On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 01:50:48PM +, Luke Palmer wrote:
: > : Is that still the case? I don't recall us getting rid of it, but it
: > : doesn't seem to be documente
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 07:00:23AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 01:50:48PM +, Luke Palmer wrote:
> : Is that still the case? I don't recall us getting rid of it, but it
> : doesn't seem to be documented in the AES.
>
> We didn't get rid of it.
So does it mean that a "3-
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 01:50:48PM +, Luke Palmer wrote:
: Hey grep { !/Luke/ } @Larry,
:
: multi foo(Foo, Bar: Baz); # manhattan on Foo and Bar
: multi foo(Foo: Bar: Baz); # leftmost on Foo and Bar
: wtf?
: multiple colons?
:
: Is that still the case? I don&#
Hey grep { !/Luke/ } @Larry,
multi foo(Foo, Bar: Baz); # manhattan on Foo and Bar
multi foo(Foo: Bar: Baz); # leftmost on Foo and Bar
wtf?
multiple colons?
Is that still the case? I don't recall us getting rid of it, but it
doesn't seem to be documented
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