Long-time lurker, first time poster. Dittos, kudos, etc.
Back on the topic of required named parameters, I think John Siracusa's
initial post did a good job of separating the two concepts of parameter
mandate (required vs. optional) and parameter designation (by position vs.
by name). Each of
On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 19:01, Larry Wall wrote:
That would almost certainly fail with an error saying that it couldn't
find your new subroutine. The sigil does not imply dispatch, and
the default .new is inherited, not autogenerated, last I checked. :-)
ouch. too true.
so I guess my Animal
As I try writing P6 programs I do find myself needing required named
params, and I thought I'd like something like ++$named_req for myself as a
shorthand for +$named_req is required or whatever is decided.
Now, larry often says (only partly jokingly) go write your own grammar.
But I do not know
Abhijit A. Mahabal skribis 2004-05-04 10:27 (-0500):
As I try writing P6 programs I do find myself needing required named
params, and I thought I'd like something like ++$named_req for myself as a
shorthand for +$named_req is required or whatever is decided.
What's wrong with just specifying
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 03:41:58PM +0200, Aldo Calpini wrote:
: but: what if Animal does inherits from something else? what I would like
: to do (what I was trying to do with wrappers, that is) is to call the
: inherited constructor, then do something with the returned object.
: something like:
:
Dov Wasserman writes:
Long-time lurker, first time poster. Dittos, kudos, etc.
Welcome aboard.
Since in the rest of Perl 6, the '~' operator involves string
representation, perhaps the standard +$foo marker should really be ~$foo:
i.e., $foo only has a (string) name, not a numeric position.
Abhijit A. Mahabal writes:
As I try writing P6 programs I do find myself needing required named
params, and I thought I'd like something like ++$named_req for myself as a
shorthand for +$named_req is required or whatever is decided.
Now, larry often says (only partly jokingly) go write your
On Tue, 4 May 2004, Luke Palmer wrote:
Abhijit A. Mahabal writes:
Needing to know the entire P6 grammar isn't mouth watering.
grammar Grammar::ReqNamed {
is Grammar::Perl;
Ah, I see. That does answer my question. I had forgotten that grammers can
be inherited from and you can
