Re: Same-named arguments

2006-08-26 Thread markjreed
So what's the rationale behind the latest changes? I thought p6 consistently regarded the sigil as part of the name; seems like that should go for named parameters, too. In fact, sigils would seem to be a good way to distinguish named parameters from pairs. Alternatively, reserve either :k(v)

Re: Same-named arguments

2006-08-26 Thread Audrey Tang
2006/8/26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So what's the rationale behind the latest changes? I thought p6 consistently regarded the sigil as part of the name; seems like that should go for named parameters, too. In fact, sigils would seem to be a good way to distinguish named parameters

Re: feedback on the draft documentation spec

2006-08-26 Thread Damian Conway
http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/docs/Perl6/Spec/Documentation.pod ...is *way* out of date. It predates the meeting Ingy, Larry, Audrey, and I had in Tokyo, in which most of the kinks were ironed out. I have a new draft of S26 with the design team at the moment, and am close to having a first

Re: Same-named arguments

2006-08-26 Thread markjreed
So what's the rationale behind the latest changes? I thought p6 consistently regarded the sigil as part of the name; seems like that should go for named parameters, too. In fact, sigils would seem to be a good way to distinguish named parameters from pairs. Alternatively, reserve either :k(v)

Re: Same-named arguments

2006-08-26 Thread markjreed
So what's the rationale behind the latest changes? I thought p6 consistently regarded the sigil as part of the name; seems like that should go for named parameters, too. In fact, sigils would seem to be a good way to distinguish named parameters from pairs. Alternatively, reserve either :k(v)