Re: Allowing '-' in identifiers: what's the motivation?

2008-08-21 Thread Peter Scott
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:59:50 +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > That said, I really *really* like the idea of embedded dashes > in identifiers (not least because underscores offend my amateur > typophile self), but the idea of being able to embed other > operator-ish symbols in identifiers leaves

Re: arrayref/hashref in spectest suite

2008-08-21 Thread Thom Boyer
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: my $foo = [ 42 ]; my $bar = { a => 23 }; $foo[1] = $bar; TSa (Thomas Sandlaß) wrote: I would also opt for copy semantics whenever = is used for assignment. But C<$foo[1] = $bar> *does* use copy semantics. The thing on the right is a reference to a hash, a

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14576 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-08-21 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Aug 21 12:58:24 2008 New Revision: 14576 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod Log: remove failover from methods to subs Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S12

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14577 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-08-21 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Aug 21 13:38:48 2008 New Revision: 14577 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod Log: Clarification that categories change the choice of dispatcher on method names Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod ==

Re: The False Cognate problem and what Roles are still missing

2008-08-21 Thread chromatic
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 15:16:12 Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > It therefore seems necessary to me to specify dispatch such that > method calls in the Dog role invoke the original Dog role methods > where such methods exist. There also needs to be a way for a > class that assumes a role to expli