Audrey Tang wrote:
Hm, Perl 6 actually has two different ways of putting Capture to some
Code object... Following yesterday's P6AST draft I'll call them Call and
Apply respectively:
moose($obj: 1, 2); # this is Call
moose.($obj: 1, 2); # this is Apply
elk(named =
Dave Whipp wrote:
Also, I'm a bit confused By the idea that the invocant is obtained by a
scalar dereference, because I know that arrays and hashes can be
invocants, too. E.g. @a.pop. So, If I do:
my $args = \(@a:);
my $b = $$args; # @a as a scalar
my @c = @$args; # empty list
Reading about capture objects, I see that they represent an arglist, and
the the object to which you going to send those args. What is doesn't
capture is the method name (the verb) that's being called. This feels
like a slightly strange ommission.
Compare:
$message = Shape::draw.prebind(
Dave Whipp wrote:
Perhaps I'm not fully groking the abstraction of the capture-object, but
it seems to me that there should be a slot in it for the method. For
dispatch, all three things are needed (invocant, method, args); so if
you're going to put two of them in one object, then maybe the
