Re: r26700 - docs/Perl6/Spec

[Jonathan Worthington]

Moritz Lenz wrote:

Jon Lang wrote:
  

@@ -1836,6 +1836,12 @@
 prototype objects, in which case stringification is not likely to
 produce something of interest to non-gurus.)

+The C.^parents method by default returns a flattened list of all
+parents sorted in MRO (dispatch) order. Other options are:
+
+:local  just returns the immediate parents
+:hierarchical   the inheritance heirarchy as nested arrays
  

Bad Huffman coding, IMHO.  Could we s/hierarchical/tree/?



Huffman coding? How often do you you call meta object methods?

Anyway, I agree that :tree would be nicer (notice that hierarchical is
sufficiently hard to type so it's typed wrongly in 50% of the
occurrences ;-))

  
I've found 2 different ways to misspell hierarcha^Whierachi^W*sigh* 
already while stubbing that flag into Rakudo yesterday. So I'd happily 
see it become tree. If there's no objections soonish, let's change it to 
that.


Jonathan

Re: r26700 - docs/Perl6/Spec

[Jon Lang]

 @@ -1836,6 +1836,12 @@
  prototype objects, in which case stringification is not likely to
  produce something of interest to non-gurus.)

 +The C.^parents method by default returns a flattened list of all
 +parents sorted in MRO (dispatch) order. Other options are:
 +
 +    :local              just returns the immediate parents
 +    :hierarchical       the inheritance heirarchy as nested arrays

Bad Huffman coding, IMHO.  Could we s/hierarchical/tree/?

-- 
Jonathan Dataweaver Lang

Re: r26700 - docs/Perl6/Spec

[Moritz Lenz]

Jon Lang wrote:
 @@ -1836,6 +1836,12 @@
  prototype objects, in which case stringification is not likely to
  produce something of interest to non-gurus.)

 +The C.^parents method by default returns a flattened list of all
 +parents sorted in MRO (dispatch) order. Other options are:
 +
 +:local  just returns the immediate parents
 +:hierarchical   the inheritance heirarchy as nested arrays
 
 Bad Huffman coding, IMHO.  Could we s/hierarchical/tree/?

Huffman coding? How often do you you call meta object methods?

Anyway, I agree that :tree would be nicer (notice that hierarchical is
sufficiently hard to type so it's typed wrongly in 50% of the
occurrences ;-))

Moritz