From: Steffen Schwigon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thomas Wittek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Maybe we should steal the ruby principle of least surprise here,
which I find a very good principle.
I'm quite confident that Larry already stole all good principles he
could find.
Me too. However
Thomas Wittek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Steffen Schwigon schrieb:
At least the many keywords seem to be necessary to map the complexity
of different paradigms possible in Perl6. Multimethods are not just
overloading as in C++. Second, the different keywords declare
different behaviour you can
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 06:18:51PM +0300, Markus Laire wrote:
multi sub talk (String $msg1, String $msg2) { say $msg1 $msg2 }
multi sub talk (String $msg, Int $times) { say $msg x $times; }
multi sub talk (String $msg, Num $times) { say Please use an integer; }
multi sub talk (String $msg,
Hi All,
At the risk of sounding a bit thick, I have a couple of questions
about Perl6's multi keyword and mutilmethod in general. This seems
like overloaded functions from C++ so why do we need a key word to
declare them rather than using something like C++'s name mangling? Is
there
