Re: r26700 - docs/Perl6/Spec
Moritz Lenz wrote: Jon Lang wrote: @@ -1836,6 +1836,12 @@ prototype objects, in which case stringification is not likely to produce something of interest to non-gurus.) +The C<.^parents> method by default returns a flattened list of all +parents sorted in MRO (dispatch) order. Other options are: + +:local just returns the immediate parents +:hierarchical the inheritance heirarchy as nested arrays Bad Huffman coding, IMHO. Could we s/hierarchical/tree/? Huffman coding? How often do you you call meta object methods? Anyway, I agree that :tree would be nicer (notice that "hierarchical" is sufficiently hard to type so it's typed wrongly in 50% of the occurrences ;-)) I've found 2 different ways to misspell hierarcha^Whierachi^W*sigh* already while stubbing that flag into Rakudo yesterday. So I'd happily see it become tree. If there's no objections soonish, let's change it to that. Jonathan
Re: r26700 - docs/Perl6/Spec
Jon Lang wrote: >> @@ -1836,6 +1836,12 @@ >> prototype objects, in which case stringification is not likely to >> produce something of interest to non-gurus.) >> >> +The C<.^parents> method by default returns a flattened list of all >> +parents sorted in MRO (dispatch) order. Other options are: >> + >> +:local just returns the immediate parents >> +:hierarchical the inheritance heirarchy as nested arrays > > Bad Huffman coding, IMHO. Could we s/hierarchical/tree/? Huffman coding? How often do you you call meta object methods? Anyway, I agree that :tree would be nicer (notice that "hierarchical" is sufficiently hard to type so it's typed wrongly in 50% of the occurrences ;-)) Moritz
Re: r26700 - docs/Perl6/Spec
> @@ -1836,6 +1836,12 @@ > prototype objects, in which case stringification is not likely to > produce something of interest to non-gurus.) > > +The C<.^parents> method by default returns a flattened list of all > +parents sorted in MRO (dispatch) order. Other options are: > + > + :local just returns the immediate parents > + :hierarchical the inheritance heirarchy as nested arrays Bad Huffman coding, IMHO. Could we s/hierarchical/tree/? -- Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang