Re: What should +:21a produce?

2008-09-15 Thread Mark J. Reed
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Re: What should +:21a produce?

2008-09-15 Thread Darren Duncan
Mark J. Reed wrote: I read the statement use A or B for base 12, not T or E as meaning for the values ten and eleven in base 12, use :12A and :12B, not :12T and :12E. Does it say anywhere that you can use non-decimal notation for the radix specifier itself? 'Cause that strikes me as

Offerings - edits pending

2008-09-15 Thread John M. Dlugosz
This is just a reminder that I have files posted at http://www.dlugosz.com/Perl6/offerings/ waiting for someone in authority to inspect and merge.

Re: How to define a new value type?

2008-09-15 Thread John M. Dlugosz
TSa Thomas.Sandlass-at-vts-systems.de |Perl 6| wrote: Taking only the lhs into account doesn't work in Patrick's code because he has untyped variables. The Dog is only on the rhs. This is why I think we need a binary dispatch. I don't see much use for the type of the LHS, though. C++ dispatches

Re: How to define a new value type?

2008-09-15 Thread Darren Duncan
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: In [1], Larry writes: [...] we left = in the language to provide (to the extent possible) the same semantics that it does in Perl 5. And when it comes to non-value types, there really are still references, even if we try not to talk about them much. So I think

Re: Offerings - edits pending

2008-09-15 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 06:08:37PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote: This is just a reminder that I have files posted at http://www.dlugosz.com/Perl6/offerings/ waiting for someone in authority to inspect and merge. Would it be worthwhile to provide them as diffs? That way we could easily see

Re: How to define a new value type?

2008-09-15 Thread John M. Dlugosz
Darren Duncan darren-at-darrenduncan.net |Perl 6| wrote: So, how does one get an object to pretend to be a value type for purposes of assignment? Currently if I do the following class Dog { ... } my $a = Dog.new; my $b = $a; then $a and $b both refer to the same Dog object. How

Re: How to define a new value type?

2008-09-15 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:09:41PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote: Darren Duncan darren-at-darrenduncan.net |Perl 6| wrote: So, how does one get an object to pretend to be a value type for purposes of assignment? I have been under the impression that value types are supposed to define