Re: getting help in the REPL

2017-06-14 Thread Timo Paulssen
timo@schmetterling ~> perl6 -e '#| this is sub foo documentation sub foo() { }; say say ' this is sub foo documentation No such method 'WHEREFOR' for invocant of type 'Pod::Block::Declarator'. Did you mean 'WHEREFORE'? in block

Re: getting help in the REPL

2017-06-14 Thread Brian Duggan
$ perl6 To exit type 'exit' or '^D' > #|{ because } class Foo { } (Foo) > Foo.WHY because > On Wednesday, June 14, Gabor Szabo wrote: > Thanks for all the responses so far. > > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Timo Paulssen wrote: > > WHY and WHEREFOR are "fully" supported,

Re: getting help in the REPL

2017-06-14 Thread Gabor Szabo
Thanks for all the responses so far. On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Timo Paulssen wrote: > WHY and WHEREFOR are "fully" supported, it's just that we've not put any > pod into the core setting and we don't have helper code that loads it > "lazily" when WHY is called the first

Re: getting help in the REPL

2017-06-14 Thread Timo Paulssen
WHY and WHEREFOR are "fully" supported, it's just that we've not put any pod into the core setting and we don't have helper code that loads it "lazily" when WHY is called the first time on a core class or sub …

Re: getting help in the REPL

2017-06-14 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 04:00:05PM +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: > In the python interactive shell one can write dir(object) and it > lists the attributes and methods of the object. One can write > help(object) and get the documentation of the object. > Is there anything similar in Perl 6? I think

Re: getting help in the REPL

2017-06-14 Thread Brian Duggan
On Wednesday, June 14, Gabor Szabo wrote: > Hi, > > In the python interactive shell one can write dir(object) and it > lists the attributes and methods of the object. One can write > help(object) and get the documentation of the object. > > Is there anything similar in Perl 6?

getting help in the REPL

2017-06-14 Thread Gabor Szabo
Hi, In the python interactive shell one can write dir(object) and it lists the attributes and methods of the object. One can write help(object) and get the documentation of the object. Is there anything similar in Perl 6? Gabor