Author: larry
Date: Fri May 19 11:13:09 2006
New Revision: 9302
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod
Log:
Refined hyperops a bit.
Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod
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--- doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 03:17:36PM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
: What's the relationship in perl6 between namespaces and classes?
Hmm, well, that's hard to put one's finger on, but to the first
approximation namespaces are for declarational names, while classes
can really only name things
'Course, I left out everything about prototype objects there...
The name Foo also (in context) represents an uninitialized object of
the class in question. Any object, initialized or not, can get at
its type handlers by saying
Foo.meta
$foo.meta
and, in fact, the Foo.^bar syntax is
I know they were just introduced, but I have a question about the
conceptual validity of the following statements in S03, which appear
in the newly edited hyper-operators section:
Bag(3,8,[2,Seq(9,3]],8) - 1; # Bag(2,7,[1,Seq(8,2)],7)
Bag(3,8,[2,Seq(9,3)],8) - (1,1,1,1); #
Er, I meant to say subtracted where I said added. -- Darren Duncan
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 12:35:11PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
If this isn't answering what you were asking, please ask s'more,
and I'll try to reply when I'm not busy having a grandbaby.
adCONGRATULATIONSvance :-)
Packages, modules, classes, roles, subsets, enums, etc. all pretend they
are
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 12:53:29PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
and, in fact, the Foo.^bar syntax is just short for Foo.meta.bar.
So, you anticipated my half-question.
The type of metaobject Foo.meta might be called Class if that's what the
metaobject protocol decides it should be, but Perl the
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 02:51:55PM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 12:53:29PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
The type of metaobject Foo.meta might be called Class if that's what the
metaobject protocol decides it should be, but Perl the Language doesn't
care. If so, then
Author: larry
Date: Fri May 19 16:29:33 2006
New Revision: 9304
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod
Log:
dduncan++ points out that bags are unordered, which actually forces asymmetry.
Clarified difference between ».foo and ».?foo
Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 03:25:43PM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
: Based on what I'm seeing, the Perl 6 type object is the thing that claims
: the primary name associated with a class. Foo::Bar is the type object.
: The metaobject seems to be anonymous. And the package seems to be fairly
:
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