Re: S05 :exhaustive eg

2007-04-28 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On 4/27/07, Brad Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would expect a different ordering. Perhaps the ".*" should be ".*?" or the output "bracadabr bracad brac br cadabr cad c dabr d br" ? The :overlap example follows this order. You're probably right about that: $ perl5.9.5 -E 'my @m; "abracad

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14389 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-04-28 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Sat Apr 28 15:23:15 2007 New Revision: 14389 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod Log: Use of protoobjects for role initial values. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod == --- doc/trunk/design

S12: can(), signatures and casting

2007-04-28 Thread Ovid
My apologies if these have been answered. I've been chatting with Jonathan Worthington about some of this and any misconceptions are mine, not his. In reading through S12, I see that .can() returns an iterator for the methods matched. What I'm curious about is this: if $obj.can('fribble') {