Re: more .method (was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-05 through 2005-07-12)

2005-07-14 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 12:14:57PM -0600, John Williams wrote: : Actually I took his question to be: : : If I explicitly name my invocant in the method signature, does that give : the compiler enough assurance that I'm not going to use .method to mean : $?SELF.method, and it will allow me to safel

more .method (was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-05 through 2005-07-12)

2005-07-14 Thread John Williams
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Juerd wrote: > Dave Whipp skribis 2005-07-13 8:44 (-0700): > > > Within a method or submethod, C<.method> only works when C<$_ =:= > > > $?SELF>. > > >C<.method> is perfectly legal on *any* topic anywhere that $?SELF > > >doesn't exist. > > Just to be clear, this includes an

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-05 through 2005-07-12

2005-07-13 Thread Juerd
Dave Whipp skribis 2005-07-13 8:44 (-0700): > > Within a method or submethod, C<.method> only works when C<$_ =:= > > $?SELF>. > >C<.method> is perfectly legal on *any* topic anywhere that $?SELF > >doesn't exist. > Just to be clear, this includes any method/submethod with an explicitly > named

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-05 through 2005-07-12

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Whipp
Damian Conway wrote: Important qualification: Within a method or submethod, C<.method> only works when C<$_ =:= > $?SELF>. C<.method> is perfectly legal on *any* topic anywhere that $?SELF doesn't exist. Just to be clear, this includes any method/submethod with an explicitly named invo

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-05 through 2005-07-12

2005-07-12 Thread Damian Conway
Matt Fowles summarized: Method Call on Invocant Now " ./method "is gone, and " .method " only works when " $_ =:= $?SELF ". Important qualification: Within a method or submethod, C<.method> only works when C<$_ =:= $?SELF>. C<.method> is perfectly lega

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-05 through 2005-07-12

2005-07-12 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-05 through 2005-07-12 All~ Welcome to another summary from the frog house. A house so green it can be seen from outerspace (according to google earth). Perl 6 Compiler Building Pugs Workaround Sam Vilain posted a useful work around to the error