On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 17:12:51 +, Luke Palmer wrote:
> On 9/1/05, Yuval Kogman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 13:43:57 -0600, Luke Palmer wrote:
> > > Uh yeah, I think that's what I was saying. To clarify:
> > >
> > > sub foo (&prefix:<+>) { 1 == 2 }# 1 and 2
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:45:33 +0300, Yuval Kogman wrote a lot.
I'd like to summarize:
* if operators are not special than they are defined in perl 6
(maybe)
* if operators are defined in terms of other operators, then
overriding an operator may interfere with t
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 17:56:39 +0200, Ingo Blechschmidt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> multi foo ($a) {...}
> multi foo ($a, $b) {...}
>
> say &foo.arity;
> # die? warn and return 0? warn and return undef? return 1|2?
A multi sub is a collection of variants, so it doesn't have arity,
eac
On 03/09/05, Yuval Kogman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A multi sub is a collection of variants, so it doesn't have arity,
> each variant has arity.
>
> I'd say it 'fail's.
But if the reason you're calling `&foo.arity` is to answer the
question "Can I call this sub with three arguments?" then that
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 00:27:39 +1000, Stuart Cook wrote:
> if &foo.accepts(:pos(1..3) :named :code) { ... }
I prefer this api... Arity is ambiguous will multiply variadic args.
We have any number of positionals, nameds, and zero, one or two
slurpies.
> None of this really answers the question
On 9/3/05, Stuart Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 03/09/05, Yuval Kogman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > A multi sub is a collection of variants, so it doesn't have arity,
> > each variant has arity.
> >
> > I'd say it 'fail's.
>
> But if the reason you're calling `&foo.arity` is to answer the
