Re: Naming debate- what's the location for it?

Thanks for the summary of the high points, as there were a large number of low points in previous discussions. Roku is not the only reading for 六 in Japanese, the kun reading is muttsu. So we could become Mupperl. What's the counter word for computer languages, anyway? On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at

Re: Is this a bug?

Remember you can call a block with parentheses: > say { 11 + 31 }; -> ;; $_? is raw { #`(Block|140268472711224) ... } > say { 11 + 31 }(); 42 On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > I think you want: > > .say for reverse lines; > > not sure what you

Re: Types for Perl 6: request for comments

your full name I will give credits to you) The do block version to make anonymous sub was my work, Brent Laabs. Using lexical subs to emulate anonymous multi subs was the first thing to come to mind when I read that Perl 6 didn't have them. Unfortunately, I haven't had time to read the rest of your

Re: Types for Perl 6: request for comments

Subs are lexical by default, so adding my to the function declarators does nothing. Not sure what anon is doing there. My guess is that anon in sink context does nothing, and Rakudo just builds another proto for foo when it sees the first multi. Protos are optional (but not in the compiler

Re: Anonymous multi-subs

I'll just note that you can fake anon multi subs with lexical subs like this: my $sub = do { proto foo (|) { * } multi foo (Int $x) { $x + 1 } multi foo (Str $y) { $y ~ 'a' } foo; } say $sub(hello); The sub there is still named foo as attested by $sub.name, but isn't available

Re: Language design

Yes, unpredictable performance is a price I'm willing to pay. I'm using a dynamic language after all. If you aren't willing to pay it, just use typed variables. Or even native types, like num or int. Choose your own number representation -- there's more than one way to do it. The design