Author: lwall
Date: 2009-03-18 20:04:16 +0100 (Wed, 18 Mar 2009)
New Revision: 25890
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod
Log:
kill off int as a prefix operator to avoid confusion with the type name
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod
===================================================================
--- docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod 2009-03-18 18:24:25 UTC (rev 25889)
+++ docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod 2009-03-18 19:04:16 UTC (rev 25890)
@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@
Maintainer: Larry Wall <la...@wall.org>
Date: 8 Mar 2004
- Last Modified: 17 Mar 2009
+ Last Modified: 18 Mar 2009
Number: 3
- Version: 159
+ Version: 160
=head1 Overview
@@ -991,7 +991,6 @@
Functions of one argument
- int
sleep
abs
sin
@@ -1000,9 +999,16 @@
Note that, unlike in Perl 5, you must use the C<.meth> forms to default
to C<$_> in Perl 6.
-There is no unary C<rand> function in Perl 6, though there is a C<.rand>
-method call and an argumentless C<rand> term.
+There is no unary C<rand> prefix in Perl 6, though there is a C<.rand>
+method call and an argumentless C<rand> term. There is no unary C<int>
+prefix either; you must use a typecast to a type such as C<Int> or C<int>.
+(Typecasts require parentheses and may not be used as prefix operators.)
+In other words:
+ my $i = int $x; # ILLEGAL
+
+is a syntax error (two terms in a row), because C<int> is a type name now.
+
=over
=item *
