Re: What is this "\t"?

2022-11-29 Thread Marcel Timmerman
On 29-11-2022 15:08, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: Perhaps it would make sense to export these to a separate Gnome::Constants module? Wel, I have done that, sort of. The file is generated in the Build phase of the installation of Gnome::N where I run a C program outputting the sizes from several

Re: What is this "\t"?

2022-11-29 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
Perhaps it would make sense to export these to a separate Gnome::Constants module? > On 29 Nov 2022, at 15:05, Marcel Timmerman wrote: > > On 29-11-2022 10:13, Francis Grizzly Smit wrote: > > Hi Francis, >> >> Personally I never use \name are I hate how it looks, and so far I have >> never

Re: What is this "\t"?

2022-11-29 Thread Marcel Timmerman
On 29-11-2022 10:13, Francis Grizzly Smit wrote: Hi Francis, Personally I never use \name are I hate how it looks, and so far I have never needed it, so unless I can find something it can do that I cannot do any other way, I'll keep on not using it To show an example where I could use it I

Re: What is this "\t"?

2022-11-29 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 11/29/22 01:13, Francis Grizzly Smit wrote: Personally I never use \name are I hate how it looks, and so far I have never needed it, so unless I can find something it can do that I cannot do any other way, I'll keep on not using it I have seen it use and it was sneaky as all heck. Very

Re: What is this "\t"?

2022-11-29 Thread Francis Grizzly Smit
On 29/11/22 13:21, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: On 11/28/22 17:40, ToddAndMargo wrote: Sigilless variable https://docs.raku.org/language/glossary#Sigilless_variable   Sigilless variables are actually aliases to the   value it is assigned to them, since they are   not 

Re: What is this "\t"?

2022-11-28 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 11/28/22 17:40, ToddAndMargo wrote: Sigilless variable https://docs.raku.org/language/glossary#Sigilless_variable  Sigilless variables are actually aliases to the  value it is assigned to them, since they are  not containers. Once you assign a sigilless  variable (using 

Re: What is this "\t"?

2022-11-28 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 11/27/22 19:02, Clifton Wood wrote: @ToddAndMargo: These are all explained in the Raku documentation. For advanced users that already know what they are doing and do not need it Long story short: "my \t" -- this is a RAW definition. You can use it to hold types, as in this case. ".of"

Re: What is this "\t"?

2022-11-27 Thread Clifton Wood
s://github.com/salortiz/NativeHelpers-Blob/blob/master/lib/NativeHelpers/Blob.pm6 > > Line 96 > > my \t = ptr.of ~~ void ?? $type.of !! ptr.of; > > > What is `\t`? > > What of `.of` > > What is `??`? > > What is `!!` > > > Yours in confusion. > > -T >

What is this "\t"?

2022-11-27 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
Hi All, On https://github.com/salortiz/NativeHelpers-Blob/blob/master/lib/NativeHelpers/Blob.pm6 Line 96 my \t = ptr.of ~~ void ?? $type.of !! ptr.of; What is `\t`? What of `.of` What is `??`? What is `!!` Yours in confusion. -T