Re: What does ^methods really tell you?

2018-07-31 Thread Joseph Brenner
Thanks much-- so there's an explicit cut-off at the (Cool)/(Any) level... It seems peculiar that there's often a lot of duplicates in the list, including mysterious entries like "Method+{is-nodal}.new". On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 11:01 PM, Siavash wrote: > > "Returns a list of public methods

Re: What does ^methods really tell you?

2018-07-31 Thread Siavash
"Returns a list of public methods available on the class (which includes methods from superclasses and roles). By default this stops at the classes Cool, Any or Mu; to really get all methods, use the :all adverb. If :local is set, only methods declared directly in the class are returned."

What does ^methods really tell you?

2018-07-30 Thread Joseph Brenner
I originally thought that $var.^methods gave you a list of all available methods on $var, but it looks like it doesn't (always?) report on inherited methods. my $stringy = '3.14159'; say $stringy.^name; # Str say $stringy.^mro; # ((Str) (Cool) (Any) (Mu)) The list returned from checking