Re: Is the cosine page wrong?

2020-12-28 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 12/28/20 11:29 PM, Peter Scott wrote: On 12/28/20 10:57 PM, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: On 12/28/20 4:54 AM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: So please take what I say now as a plea for you to adapt a little, not to get pissed off with us even though you do seem to have pissed some of us 

Re: Is the cosine page wrong?

2020-12-28 Thread Peter Scott
On 12/28/20 10:57 PM, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: On 12/28/20 4:54 AM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: So please take what I say now as a plea for you to adapt a little, not to get pissed off with us even though you do seem to have pissed some of us off. You have very definite ideas about

Re: Is the cosine page wrong?

2020-12-28 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 12/28/20 4:54 AM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: But they may be useful to someone. Even worse, it is not possible for me to find a collection of your keepers because they are in posts to this email list, and I am not going to search through thousands of emails for your keepers on something

Re: Is the cosine page wrong?

2020-12-28 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 12/28/20 4:54 AM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: So please take what I say now as a plea for you to adapt a little, not to get pissed off with us even though you do seem to have pissed some of us off. You have very definite ideas about what the documentation should and shouldn't be. You have

Re: Is the cosine page wrong?

2020-12-28 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 12/28/20 4:54 AM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: Todd, Some of what you have said in this email list over the years has been very valuable. You ask questions that get some very illuminating answers. I wrote a Module just for you (although I' still trying to get it to work on Windows) and it

Re: I need help understanding ".contains" method construction

2020-12-28 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 12/28/20 7:11 AM, Parrot Raiser wrote: "Definition of invoke transitive verb 1a : to petition for help or support b : to appeal to or cite as authority 2 : to call forth by incantation : conjure 3 : to make an earnest request for : solicit 4 :

Re: Checking for nil return

2020-12-28 Thread Brad Gilbert
The closest to null is actually an undefined type object On Mon, Dec 28, 2020, 3:36 PM yary wrote: > Been thinking about this, and checked out the Rakudo repository to peek > into the source. > > Allowing Failure as a return always makes sense to me– every block needs > to be capable of passing

Re: Checking for nil return

2020-12-28 Thread yary
Been thinking about this, and checked out the Rakudo repository to peek into the source. Allowing Failure as a return always makes sense to me– every block needs to be capable of passing along a failure, that's how the language is designed. On the other hand, Nil is not a Failure. Conceptually

Re: Is the cosine page wrong?

2020-12-28 Thread Parrot Raiser
P.R. submitted for step #2 On 12/28/20, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > This seems to have been fixed already. > > The speed this problem was noted and fixed demonstrates (a) the > importance given to documentation, and (b) the diligence of JJ. > > Kudos to JJ and those who helped fix the problem. >

Re: Is the cosine page wrong?

2020-12-28 Thread Richard Hainsworth
This seems to have been fixed already. The speed this problem was noted and fixed demonstrates (a) the importance given to documentation, and (b) the diligence of JJ. Kudos to JJ and those who helped fix the problem. Richard On 28/12/2020 15:35, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:

Re: Is the cosine page wrong?

2020-12-28 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
https://github.com/Raku/doc/issues/3753 > On 28 Dec 2020, at 16:23, Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I just went to the page at docs.raku.org on multi-line comments, to > suggest a couple of clarifying edits. The pencil icon invoked a 404 > from GitHub. > > When one goes to make a

Re: Is the cosine page wrong?

2020-12-28 Thread Parrot Raiser
I just went to the page at docs.raku.org on multi-line comments, to suggest a couple of clarifying edits. The pencil icon invoked a 404 from GitHub. When one goes to make a fix, and the fixer is broken, it's a bit recursive. Can anyone cure problem #1, so I can get to step #2? :-)* On 12/28/20,

Re: I need help understanding ".contains" method construction

2020-12-28 Thread Parrot Raiser
"Definition of invoke transitive verb 1a : to petition for help or support b : to appeal to or cite as authority 2 : to call forth by incantation : conjure 3 : to make an earnest request for : solicit 4 : to put into effect or operation : implement

Re: Is the cosine page wrong?

2020-12-28 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
❤️ > On 28 Dec 2020, at 13:54, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > > Todd, > > Some of what you have said in this email list over the years has been very > valuable. You ask questions that get some very illuminating answers. I wrote > a Module just for you (although I' still trying to get it to work

Re: Is the cosine page wrong?

2020-12-28 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Todd, Some of what you have said in this email list over the years has been very valuable. You ask questions that get some very illuminating answers. I wrote a Module just for you (although I' still trying to get it to work on Windows) and it inspired me to look much more deeply at

Re: Is the cosine page wrong?

2020-12-28 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 12/25/20 8:10 AM, Ralph Mellor wrote: On 12/23/20 4:28 PM, Ralph Mellor wrote: > If a method does not explicitly specify its invocant type, it is set > to the type of the enclosing class. But it does not specify an invocant. It just leaves it blank This is how it works in Raku source