Re: Interrogating signatures

2008-07-08 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 12:47:57PM +0200, Jonathan Worthington wrote: > * Can you do .arity and .count of a signature? There could surely be methods to provide such values. > * Can you iterate over a signature to get each element in there? > * If so, what sort thing thingy to you get to describe

Re: Interrogating signatures

2008-07-08 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 12:47:57PM +0200, Jonathan Worthington wrote: > Hi, > > Is there an introspection interface for signatures defined anywhere? > I've looked through the synopses and don't see one. I'm thinking things > like: > > * Can you do .arity and .count of a signature? > * Can you i

Interrogating signatures

2008-07-08 Thread Jonathan Worthington
Hi, Is there an introspection interface for signatures defined anywhere? I've looked through the synopses and don't see one. I'm thinking things like: * Can you do .arity and .count of a signature? * Can you iterate over a signature to get each element in there? * If so, what sort thing thing