Re: Need help with Nil values

2016-02-23 Thread Lloyd Fournier
; > > Regards, > > Emiliano > > > -- > *From:* Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Tuesday, February 23, 2016 2:21 AM > *To:* TS xx > *Cc:* perl6-users@perl.org > > *Subject:* Re: Need help with Nil values > On

Re: Need help with Nil values

2016-02-22 Thread TS xx
Thanks, That was it. Somtimes I get confused with the way other languages treat undefined/null/nil values. Regards, Emiliano From: Timo Paulssen <t...@wakelift.de> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 2:20 AM To: perl6-users@perl.org Subject: Re: Nee

Re: Need help with Nil values

2016-02-22 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 9:15 PM, TS xx wrote: > I expect $.value to hold Strings, but I want to be able to instantiate > MyClass whether I have a value already or not, and I also want to be able > to tell if $.value has a real String or not. Is this possible? You don't

Re: Need help with Nil values

2016-02-22 Thread Timo Paulssen
Hello Emiliano, In this case, I think you may want to use just "Str" instead of "Nil". "Str" is the "type object" for Str objects, and you can check whether it's a string like "foo" or just the Str object by checking $!value.defined. There's a FAQ answer that's about "Any", but it works the