assigning to named parameters

2006-09-14 Thread Aaron Sherman
I was looking over an example of named parameter passing: foo(:a1, :b2) And had the thought that we might be able to get away with treating named parameters as lvalues, making the above: foo(:a=1, :b=2) Would this be unreasonable? Does it break anything else? I'm not sure

Re: META vs meta

2006-09-14 Thread Aaron Sherman
Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 10:20:31AM +1200, Sam Vilain wrote: Larry Wall wrote: .META is more correct at the moment. Does making it all upper caps really help? It's still a pollution of the method space, any way that you look at it... Yeah but perl has already

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r11980 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-09-14 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Sep 14 09:28:33 2006 New Revision: 11980 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod Log: Added .'foo' and .bar forms to address various concerns of ajs++ and #perl6++ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r11981 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-09-14 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Sep 14 09:40:13 2006 New Revision: 11981 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod Log: Now make use of .'op' to force prefix interpretation of op, removing bad dwim Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r11982 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-09-14 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Sep 14 10:03:33 2006 New Revision: 11982 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod Log: clarfications of .$op indirection Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod == ---

Re: META vs meta

2006-09-14 Thread David Brunton
Aaron Sherman wrote: replies snipped / Is the goal to avoid namespace pollution? If so, shouldn't there be a truly metaish way of getting at the internal namespace so that someone doesn't accidentally render an object unusable by defining the wrong method name (which you can prevent with an

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r11983 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-09-14 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Sep 14 17:22:14 2006 New Revision: 11983 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S01.pod Log: Added a bit of overview of the project plan. ['bout time!] Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S01.pod == ---

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r11984 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-09-14 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Sep 14 17:29:26 2006 New Revision: 11984 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S01.pod Log: type from TreyHarris++ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S01.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S01.pod

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r11985 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-09-14 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Sep 14 17:31:33 2006 New Revision: 11985 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S01.pod Log: and the date was the wrong year... Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S01.pod == ---

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r11986 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-09-14 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Sep 14 17:32:58 2006 New Revision: 11986 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S01.pod Log: typo from TimToady--++ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S01.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S01.pod