Sorry, my Japanese is mediocre. Meant to say that you can't complain about not understanding something if you haven't learned how to read it.
On Sun, May 31, 2020, 09:05 Veesh Goldman <rabbive...@gmail.com> wrote: > 読めないと分かりませんよ。 > > > On Sun, May 31, 2020, 02:23 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < > perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > >> On 2020-05-30 04:19, Peter Pentchev wrote: >> > On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 04:36:41PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users >> wrote: >> >> >> Hi Peter, >> >> >> >> No doubt it is operating as designed. >> >> >> >> It would be a lot more friendly if "Str:U" was >> >> changed to "Str:D". Oh please! Oh Please! >> > >> > Sorry, I don't really understand what you mean. "Str:U" means >> > an undefined string - that's what you're calling .starts-with() on. >> > "Str:D" means a defined string - that's what .starts-with() wants to >> > operate on. What do you mean "change Str:U to Str:D" - the error >> > message says "you invoked it on an undefined string, it wants to be >> > invoked on a defined string", what do you want to change? >> > >> > Now, if you meant "change Str:U to 'an undefined string'", mmmm, what >> > I was trying to explain is that the error message is generic, it covers >> > any wrong calls of functions on any types... it does not really try to >> > get into what the types are (it cannot, in the general case for any >> > other type). >> > >> > G'luck, >> > Peter >> > >> >> >> Hi Peter, >> >> What a second. >> >> https://docs.raku.org/routine/starts-with >> multi method starts-with(Str:D: Str(Cool) $needle, :i(:$ignorecase), >> :m(:$ignoremark) --> Bool:D) >> >> https://docs.raku.org/routine/contains >> method contains(Cool:D: |c) >> >> I had incorrectly presumed that since neither of >> these two complained about `Str:D` not being defined >> that it was specified as `Str:U` >> >> So my beef is when you feed these guys an undefined >> variable, that they needs to tell you it requires >> a "defined" variable. Not a bunch of useless rubbish. >> For example (useless rubbish): >> >> Cannot resolve caller starts-with(Str:U: Str:D); >> none of these signatures match >> >> (Cool:D: Cool:D $needle, :i(:$ignorecase)!, >> :m(:$ignoremark), *%_ --> Bool) >> (Cool:D: Cool:D $needle, :m(:$ignoremark)!, *%_ >> --> Bool) >> (Cool:D: Cool:D $needle, *%_ --> Bool) >> (Str:D: Str:D $needle, :i(:$ignorecase)!, >> :m(:$ignoremark), *%_ --> Bool) >> (Str:D: Str:D $needle, :m(:$ignoremark)!, *%_ --> Bool) >> (Str:D: Str:D $needle, *%_ --> Bool) >> in block <unit> ... >> >> And I know, I don't get a vote on the matter. >> -T >> >
