- Original Message
> As far as I know, "Perl6Array" should _not_ be showing up in
> Perl 6's namespace, and if it is doing so, that's a reportable
> bug.
I was just being sloppy. I was using that in PIR, not Rakudo, and I mistyped
the type -- er, I wrote the wrong class name in writin
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 02:02:38PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
>
> As for Perl6Array, that's a rakudo type, not a Perl 6 type, so I
> can't speak for it. I'd just as soon that the name not show up in
> Perl 6's namespace, if I had my druthers.
As far as I know, "Perl6Array" should _not_ be showing
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 04:38:07PM -0800, Jon Lang wrote:
: No, you don't understand me. The Foo/Bar example I was giving was
: independent of your example. Rephrasing in your terms, consider the
: possibility of a class that's derived from Array, for whatever reason;
: call it "Ring". Now you d
Ovid wrote:
> - Original Message
>
>> From: Jon Lang
>
>> > Actually, I'd prefer to go much further than this:
>> >
>> > use Core 'MyCore';
>> >
>> > And have that override core classes lexically.
>> >
>> > That solves the "but I want it MY way" issue that many Perl and Ruby
>> programme
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 02:43:37PM -0800, Ovid wrote:
: Actually, I'd prefer to go much further than this:
:
: use Core 'MyCore';
:
: And have that override core classes lexically.
We're already speccing a way to substitute a different prelude from
the command line, in order to desugar -n and
- Original Message
> From: Jon Lang
> > Actually, I'd prefer to go much further than this:
> >
> > use Core 'MyCore';
> >
> > And have that override core classes lexically.
> >
> > That solves the "but I want it MY way" issue that many Perl and Ruby
> programmers have, but they don't
Ovid wrote:
> Actually, I'd prefer to go much further than this:
>
> use Core 'MyCore';
>
> And have that override core classes lexically.
>
> That solves the "but I want it MY way" issue that many Perl and Ruby
> programmers have, but they don't shoot anyone else in the foot.
Since 'use' import
- Original Message
> From: Moritz Lenz
> > That is the preferred way to avoid action-at-a-distance in P6.
>
> so if I do that, will a 'my @a' use that new Array class?
>
> Actually I'd prefer it if there were some kind of mechanism to set a
> default implementation type, so that I cou
Larry Wall wrote:
> : however, I believe
> : that it _is_ possible to derive a new class whose "name" differs from
> : an existing class only in terms of version information, such that it
> : is substituted for the original class within the lexical scope where
> : it was defined, barring explicit i
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 03:38:04AM -0800, Jon Lang wrote:
: Ovid wrote:
: > Is it possible to modify the core Perl6Array class like that (without extra
keywords)? If so, is it possible for each programmer to make such a change so
that it's lexically scoped?
:
: AFAIK, it is not possible to modi
Ovid wrote:
> Is it possible to modify the core Perl6Array class like that (without extra
> keywords)? If so, is it possible for each programmer to make such a change
> so that it's lexically scoped?
AFAIK, it is not possible to modify a core class; however, I believe
that it _is_ possible to d
Let's say two people want to add a 'shuffle' method to all arrays. Alice wants
to have it look like this:
method shuffle (*...@array is rw) {
@array .= pick(*);
}
Bob wants it to look like this:
method shuffle (*...@array is rw) {
@array = @array[0 .. @array/2] Z @arr...@array
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