Autrijus Tang wrote:
I think the former is simpler (always use coercion), but the latter
makes it possible to define various other things that, although not
isomorphic with builtin numbers, can still use arithmetic operators.
I haven't understood what Larry meant with hard constraint but I would
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 01:50:48PM +, Luke Palmer wrote:
: Hey grep { !/Luke/ } @Larry,
:
: luquimulti foo(Foo, Bar: Baz); # manhattan on Foo and Bar
: luquimulti foo(Foo: Bar: Baz); # leftmost on Foo and Bar
: autrijus wtf?
: autrijus multiple colons?
:
: Is that
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 07:00:23AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 01:50:48PM +, Luke Palmer wrote:
: Is that still the case? I don't recall us getting rid of it, but it
: doesn't seem to be documented in the AES.
We didn't get rid of it.
So does it mean that a 3-story
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 10:10:22PM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote:
: On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 07:00:23AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
: On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 01:50:48PM +, Luke Palmer wrote:
: : Is that still the case? I don't recall us getting rid of it, but it
: : doesn't seem to be documented
On 5/17/05, Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 10:10:22PM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote:
: Is the final level ($z and $w) participating in the MMD at all
: as tiebreakers? Luke mentioned that in all levels but the final
: one, Manhattan distance (sum of inheritance
Autrijus Tang wrote:
So does it mean that a 3-story multisub with two colons will
always win against one with one colon?
multi sub foo (Any $x: Str $y: Str $z, Str $w) { 1 }
multi sub foo (Str $x, Str $y: Str $z, Str $w) { 2 }
say foo(x, y, z, w); # 1
Is the final level ($z and $w)
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 07:26:54AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
It does seem that the signature that provides more information should
be rewarded for that somehow. Maybe it's most useful if non-invocant
args (or non-invocant-YET args, in this case) are just considered to
be at Any distance when
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 02:45:58PM +, Luke Palmer wrote:
Just for the folks not following along on IRC, I don't think I implied
that. But Autrijus apparently inferred it :-).
My apologies. It's a misparse on my part.
Anyway, there is no MMD whatsoever on the final level, so that:
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 04:02:16AM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote:
: Hmm. How does this play with Larry's suggestion:
:
: I suppose one could even install a colon on the end of the return
: type to request that explicitly.
:
: Does it mean that:
:
: multi sub foo(Foo: Bar: Baz:)
