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Vocabulary

So I'm seeing a lot of inconsistent OO-vocabulary around here, and it makes things pretty hard to understand. So here's how Perl 6 is using said inconsistent terms, AFAIK: - attribute A concrete data ...

Luke Palmer
Dec 12, 2003 at 11:23 am
Dec 22, 2003 at 6:03 pm
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Iterating through two arrays at once

In Perl 6, how will it be possible to iterate through two arrays at the same time? According to Apocalypse 4, the syntax is for @a; @b - $a; $b { According to the book "Perl 6 Essentials" the syntax ...

Joe Gottman
Dec 11, 2003 at 4:43 am
Dec 14, 2003 at 6:35 am
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Roles and Mix-ins?

I'm still digesting the vocabulary thread, but while I do, let me ask a question that's probably crystal clear to everyone else. Do roles act as a form of mix-in, as Ruby modules may, and Objective-C ...

Chris Shawmail (E-mail)
Dec 13, 2003 at 12:23 am
Jan 8, 2004 at 12:36 am
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This week's summary

The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 20031130 Welcome back to the weekly Perl 6 Summary, which I'm hoping to keep on a weekly cycle for the foreseeable future. It's been a relatively low volume ...

The Perl 6 Summarizer
Dec 2, 2003 at 6:08 pm
Dec 30, 2003 at 11:08 pm
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but true

I've been trying to follow the recent discussion on roles and properties and traits and such, but there's something that bugs me. If I understand correctly, adding a role at runtime using but won't ...

Adam D. Lopresto
Dec 19, 2003 at 4:36 pm
Dec 24, 2003 at 1:34 am
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RE: Properties

LOL!!! I can't believe I missed that! =o) You're obviously right, tho. correctly. Didn't know "is" would do that. Good to know! And in my meager defense, I did reference MikeL's operator synopsis as ...

Hodges, Paul
Dec 1, 2003 at 9:05 pm
Dec 4, 2003 at 2:30 am
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RE: Properties -- distributive, predeclared, post-applied....??

How about use Baz; # assume object type my property foo; my @bar of Baz is false but foo; # maybe not what you meant? If you apply a trait like false to an array, I expect it to apply to the "array ...

Hodges, Paul
Dec 4, 2003 at 7:36 pm
Dec 5, 2003 at 9:57 pm
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Perl 6 using Perl 5 modules

When the official release of Perl 6 is released and I start to write some Perl 6 programs using Perl 5 modules, will I get any errors? How will this be handled? Will all of the Perl 5 modules have to ...

PerlDiscuss - Perl Newsgroups and
Dec 21, 2003 at 4:55 am
Dec 24, 2003 at 1:57 pm
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Re: Properties

Ok, having read this now (at least corsorily) and compared it with what I believe I understand about the way P6 is implementing traits/properties/roles, I begin to get it, and I am, as usual, ...

Hodges, Paul
Dec 1, 2003 at 3:42 pm
Dec 1, 2003 at 8:38 pm
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Nature of traits

I've just been rereading the recent discussions, and I noticed something that I missed the first time: Larry Wall wrote: In other words, a trait effectively has an "installer" routine which gets run ...

Jonathan Lang
Dec 22, 2003 at 1:08 am
Dec 22, 2003 at 5:57 am
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FW: Vocabulary

Did I miss something with IS and OF? That is, I think: C<is means storage type, while C<of means trait or class: my @a is Herd of Cat; declares a Herd (presumably a base class of some collection ...

Austin Hastings
Dec 12, 2003 at 9:26 pm
Dec 13, 2003 at 12:53 am