[svn:perl6-synopsis] r8908 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-22 Thread autrijus
Author: autrijus Date: Sat Apr 22 00:22:21 2006 New Revision: 8908 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod Log: * S03: Document that Clet and Ctemp forms are not declarators. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod ==

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r8907 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-22 Thread Daniel Hulme
return a boolean for either 1 or 0 arguments. Negated operators, -return Bool::False, and all the rest return Bool::True. +return CBool::False, and all the rest return CBool::True. The comma on the first line is superfluous. -- I will take my life into my hands And I will use it.

=$fh vs *$fh

2006-04-22 Thread Audrey Tang
During my S03 cleanup today, I noticed that because *$fh and **$fh interpolates into the current argument list, it's always the same as =$fh under list context. So I wrote this paragraph: [Conjectural: File handles interpolates its lines into positional arguments (e.g. to

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r8909 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-22 Thread autrijus
Author: autrijus Date: Sat Apr 22 03:04:09 2006 New Revision: 8909 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod Log: * S03: Clarify that C* does not really provide list context to its operand; rather, it injects the operand to the currnent argument. Modified:

Two comments about S05

2006-04-22 Thread Markus Laire
Here are two comments after reading S05, Version 18 at http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/syn/S05.html In section Extensible metasyntax (...) quote With both bare hash and hash in angles, the key is always skipped over before calling any subrule in the value. That subrule may, however,

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r8910 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-22 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Sat Apr 22 11:24:56 2006 New Revision: 8910 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod Log: Fixes from Daniel and Markus. Various clarifications on string positions vs Str and Buf types Broke down and added the

Re: Capture Object: why no verb?

2006-04-22 Thread Dave Whipp
Audrey Tang wrote: Hm, Perl 6 actually has two different ways of putting Capture to some Code object... Following yesterday's P6AST draft I'll call them Call and Apply respectively: moose($obj: 1, 2); # this is Call moose.($obj: 1, 2); # this is Apply elk(named =

Re: Capture Object: why no verb?

2006-04-22 Thread Audrey Tang
Dave Whipp wrote: Also, I'm a bit confused By the idea that the invocant is obtained by a scalar dereference, because I know that arrays and hashes can be invocants, too. E.g. @a.pop. So, If I do: my $args = \(@a:); my $b = $$args; # @a as a scalar my @c = @$args; # empty list

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r8913 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-22 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Sat Apr 22 17:21:32 2006 New Revision: 8913 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S11.pod Log: Killed postfix ... dead. Generalized Whatever from subscripts to any MMD op that accepts

svn links for the Architecture section on the website?

2006-04-22 Thread Elyse M. Grasso
Given the recent explosion of svn commits in the synopses, and the fact that the versions of the synopses on the dev.perl.org/perl6 site are lagging a bit, would it make sense to add a link to the svn site to the Synopses page? This week, when I wanted to read the cumulative changes to some of