Re: The ,= operator

2020-12-05 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
Hi All, I am a little late to this conversation, but `,=` looks a lot like `push` to me. Am I missing something? -T

Pointer and OpaquePointer

2020-12-05 Thread Marcel Timmerman
Hi, I would like to know the difference between a Pointer and an OpaquePointer. I have found an entry in the FAQ where it stated that OpaquePointer is deprecated. My problem here is that the use of Pointer at several places gives irregular errors, hangups or mysterious crashes without stack

Re: Missing NullPointerException

2020-12-05 Thread Konrad Bucheli via perl6-users
The returned Nil aka bug was from my side. But when debugging it took me a while to find the culprit because when the statement with the chained methods was executed I expected all of them being executed... So that was a bit of a surprise. Thanks for the insights! On 03.12.20 23:25,

Re: Missing NullPointerException

2020-12-05 Thread Ralph Mellor
On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 10:20 PM Konrad Bucheli via perl6-users wrote: > > What is actually the rationale for such a behaviour? Ergonomically sound null safety. First, consider what other languages have. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_navigation_operator: > In object-oriented