Re: Justification for the "reversed" instruction format

There’s a very common functional programming pattern, usually called flip; its implementation in Haskell is simply: flip :: (a -> b -> c) -> b -> a -> cflip f x y = f y x Getting the same behavior out of a bespoke function in Perl 6 would be easy for any particular case, but writing a

Help mechanism in REPL?

This isn't a request for a feature, merely a thought experiment. We're still in the phase where it's more important to ensure that existing features work properly than add new ones. How difficult would it be to include a mechanism within the REPL to select either documentation or an example,

Re: Justification for the "reversed" instruction format

There is a "flip" in P6, to reverse the characters in a string, and a "reverse", to return the elements of a list. Would either of those be an equivalent? On 9/6/16, Trey Harris wrote: > There’s a very common functional programming pattern, usually called flip; > its

Re: Justification for the "reversed" instruction format

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 6:08 PM, Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is a "flip" in P6, to reverse the characters in a string, and a > "reverse", to return the elements of a list. Would either of those be > an equivalent? > Not without an "apply" mechanism used for function / method