Re: Observations from a C++/Python developer that never used Perl5

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 4:00 AM, Joseph Garvin wrote: > * I can find no concise easy-to-understand explanation for how to define > what other languages would call constructors. Instead there is a mess of > bless, magic inside Mu, new, BUILD, BUILDALL... It's not clear

Re: Observations from a C++/Python developer that never used Perl5

> As I recall it, macros where left out of the initial implementation. So you > have to wait for another Christmas Present :-) The version of macros that was available in Rakudo when the 6.c spec was cut was released with the compiler; It's marked experimental and is therefore subject to change,

Re: Observations from a C++/Python developer that never used Perl5

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 6:41 AM, Kamil Kułaga wrote: > In perl6 default way is to not write new, BUILD or BUILDALL and also > not to write accessors. When you create object you can provide > attributes to initialize, default accessors are generated if field is > declared with

Re: Observations from a C++/Python developer that never used Perl5

> > it is combining too many new things at once: Well, it is meant to be the up-front example of everything at once before the step-by-step... > * BUILD > * new These are the heart of construction. I don't think there's any avoiding that in a class tutorial. * submethod > * bless These

Re: Observations from a C++/Python developer that never used Perl5

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 12:25 AM, Kaare Rasmussen wrote: > I wonder what you miss from https://docs.perl6.org/language/classtut. To > me, it explains the hows and whys very thoroughly. Now, I now people have > been hard at work improving the documentation, so if you can point to