Author: larry
Date: Wed Sep 13 15:20:27 2006
New Revision: 11978
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod
Log:
Clarified that interogative methods are also named unaries.
Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod
==============================================================================
--- doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod (original)
+++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod Wed Sep 13 15:20:27 2006
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
Date: 27 Oct 2004
Last Modified: 13 Sept 2006
Number: 12
- Version: 22
+ Version: 23
=head1 Overview
@@ -1506,6 +1506,12 @@
WHEN (reserved for events?)
WHY (reserved for documentation?)
+None of these methods takes arguments, so they may also be used as
+named unary operators:
+
+ $obj.WHAT # method form of P5's ref
+ WHAT $obj # unary form of P5's ref
+
In general, use of these in ordinary code should be a red flag that
Something Very Strange is going on. (Hence the allcaps.) Most code
should use Perl 6's operators that make use of this information
