On 9/30/18 2:45 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
The manual need to be written for the common user to
understand, not just developer level and very advanced
users. They don't need the manual anyway.
Of course we do. I constantly refer to the Perl 5 manual rather than
waste memory on rote information. I'm always looking up format
descriptors in printf, for instance, and the near-endless special cases
in split.
The amount of syntactic capacity in function/method calls is far greater
in Perl 6 than in Perl 5. Your argument is like asking why C functions
are so much harder to learn than assembler where all one has to do is
push words onto a stack and jump. The features of signatures and types
are much larger in Perl 6 than their Perl 5 equivalents (where
everything is a list except for weird prototypes that even the manuals
advise you not to use) and critical to using the language properly and
effectively.
Understanding these key concepts among others is foundational to
programming in Perl 6 and is, again, covered in the excellent tutorial
material that you are determined not to read and are instead extracting
message by message from the members of this list. That latter approach
is going to end up being more frustrating and alienating for you in the
long term than gritting your teeth and forcing yourself to read a book.
