Lexically and grammatically, sure, but a lot of the time people are
thinking more on the semantic and pragmatic levels. Pragmatically,
bus riders, prisoners, and conference listeners are all having something
inflicted upon them. :)
Glo points out that verbs tend in the pragmatics direction
Possibly OT, the "-er/-ee" boundary has become corrupted in recent usage.
I suppose "standees" in a bus might be tolerated, depending on your
view of transit riders as active or passive, but when a jail-break
occurs, the former prisoners should become "escapers", not "escapees".
The prison
On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 03:12:26PM -0700, yary wrote:
: I have a quibble there. 1st & 2nd sentences disagree slightly by going from
: active to passive voice. "Caller, the one who calls" vs "object on which
: that method is being called"
:
: Suggestion for 2nd sentence "The invocant of a method
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On 2020-08-30 07:43, yary wrote:
The :foo syntax is called a "colon pair"
Thank you!
com>>
*Subject:* Re: lines :$nl-in question
Do you agree with that definition, Yary? Brad? Here it is:
"Invocant"
"Caller, the one who calls or invokes. The invocant of a method would
be the object on which that method is being called, or, in some cases,
the class itself. Invoc
d that by having methods use CALL-ME instead of
> INVOKE-ME :-) *
>
> MSS
>
>
> * Of course, the reason was to harmonize calls of all code, and the fluid
> nature of allowing transitive methods be used as subs and viceversa (method
> $invocant: @args and $invocant.) means that one
Do you agree with that definition, Yary? Brad? Here it is:
"Invocant"
"Caller, the one who calls or invokes. The invocant of a method would
be the object on which that method is being called, or, in some cases,
the class itself. Invocant is used instead of caller because the
latter refers to the
The Raku glossary has a definition
https://docs.raku.org/language/glossary#Invocant
suggestion, link to that where the term appears.
-y
On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 9:16 AM William Michels via perl6-users <
perl6-users@perl.org> wrote:
> Inline:
>
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 12:49 AM Brad Gilbert
Inline:
On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 12:49 AM Brad Gilbert wrote:
>
> Invocant is in the dictionary though.
>
> In fact it is from Latin.
>
> Origin & history:
> Derived from in- + vocō ("I call").
>
> Verb:
> I invoke
> I call (by name)
>
> In fact that is pretty close to the same meaning as
The :foo syntax is called a "colon pair", and colon pair also
describes :quux since it is short for :quux(True)
Colon pair also describes :$foo because it is a shorthand using a colon to
create the Pair object foo=>$foo
Searching raku docs showed
On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 9:05 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
mailto:perl6-users@perl.org>> wrote:
And if you would not mind, what is the official name
of variables that begin with ":"
On 2020-08-30 00:43, Brad Gilbert wrote:
There are no variables that begin with :
There are
On 2020-08-30 02:00, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
While your logical transitions move you down some interesting rabbit
holes, if you are going to say stuff, at least check first.
On 30/08/2020 00:39, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
On 2020-08-28 23:51, Tobias Boege wrote:
You do realize
On 2020-08-30 00:48, Brad Gilbert wrote:
Invocant is in the dictionary though.
In fact it is from Latin.
Origin & history:
Derived from in- + vocō ("I call").
Verb:
I invoke
I call (by name)
In fact that is pretty close to the same meaning as it is used in the
Raku docs.
It is
Todd,
While your logical transitions move you down some interesting rabbit
holes, if you are going to say stuff, at least check first.
On 30/08/2020 00:39, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
On 2020-08-28 23:51, Tobias Boege wrote:
You do realize "invocant" is not even in the dictionary
Invocant is in the dictionary though.
In fact it is from Latin.
Origin & history:
Derived from in- + vocō ("I call").
Verb:
I invoke
I call (by name)
In fact that is pretty close to the same meaning as it is used in the Raku
docs.
It is the object that we are calling (aka invoking) a
There are no variables that begin with :
There are variable declarations in signatures that begin with :
:$foo is exactly the same as :foo($foo)
sub bar ( :$foo ) {…}
sub bar ( :foo($foo) ){…}
:$foo in a signature is a shortcut for declaring a named argument :foo()
and a variable with
On 2020-08-29 17:04, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
On 2020-08-28 23:51, Tobias Boege wrote:
- :$chomp, :$enc, :$nl-in which are passed on to the open call
in the first bullet point above,
Hi Tobias,
I am in process of revising my keeper on lines.
May I talk you out of examples
On 2020-08-28 23:51, Tobias Boege wrote:
- :$chomp, :$enc, :$nl-in which are passed on to the open call
in the first bullet point above,
Hi Tobias,
I am in process of revising my keeper on lines.
May I talk you out of examples of the syntax used
by :$chomp, :$enc, and :$nl-in?
Many
On 2020-08-28 23:51, Tobias Boege wrote:
On Fri, 28 Aug 2020, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
https://docs.raku.org/type/IO::Path#method_lines
(IO::Path) method lines
Defined as:
method lines(IO::Path:D: :$chomp = True, :$enc = 'utf8', :$nl-in = ["\x0A",
"\r\n"], |c -->
On Fri, 28 Aug 2020, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
>https://docs.raku.org/type/IO::Path#method_lines
>
>(IO::Path) method lines
>
>Defined as:
>
>method lines(IO::Path:D: :$chomp = True, :$enc = 'utf8', :$nl-in =
> ["\x0A", "\r\n"], |c --> Seq:D)
>
>Opens the
On 2020-08-28 18:49, Paul Procacci wrote:
|c slurps the remaining arguments into c and passese those arguments to
the lines method of IO::Handle.
I do not understand
:nl-in is a named parameter that defines what the method lines would
consider as line endings.
It defines "\x0A", "\r\n" as the default.
Example:
% echo "Hi, Frank." > test.txt ; echo "What's up?" >> test.txt ; echo
'"test.txt".IO.lines(:nl-in).say' > test.pl6 ; perl6 ./test.pl6
(Hi, Fr nk.
Wh
Hi All,
In the following:
https://docs.raku.org/type/IO::Path#method_lines
(IO::Path) method lines
Defined as:
method lines(IO::Path:D: :$chomp = True, :$enc = 'utf8', :$nl-in =
["\x0A", "\r\n"], |c --> Seq:D)
Opens the invocant and returns its lines.
The behavior is
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