Re: Help mechanism in REPL?

2016-09-10 Thread Rob Hoelz
On Fri, 09 Sep 2016 16:30:28 -0700 Alex Elsayed wrote: > On Wednesday, 7 September 2016 17:57:32 PDT Parrot Raiser wrote: > > This isn't a request for a feature, merely a thought experiment. > > We're still in the phase where it's more important to ensure that > > existing

Re: Help mechanism in REPL?

2016-09-10 Thread Brad Gilbert
There was some talk in the past about having `.WHY` look up the descriptions in the POD6 doc ( so that we don't have to bloat Rakudo with that information ) On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Alex Elsayed wrote: > On Wednesday, 7 September 2016 17:57:32 PDT Parrot Raiser

Re: Help mechanism in REPL?

2016-09-10 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
FWIW, the .WHY is a method just like any other. What would need to be changed, is the behaviour of Mu.WHY (around line 60 in Mu.pm). > On 10 Sep 2016, at 16:41, Brad Gilbert wrote: > > There was some talk in the past about having `.WHY` look up the > descriptions in the