Possibly relevant StackOverflow question: "Why does constraining a Perl 6 named parameter to a definite value make it a required value?" https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48166325/why-does-constraining-a-perl-6-named-parameter-to-a-definite-value-make-it-a-req
On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 10:00 AM Peter Scott <pe...@psdt.com> wrote: > On 7/19/2021 1:24 AM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > > If .new wouldn't initialize a type to its basic instantiation, what > would be the point of .new then? > > > > FWIW, the same goes for: > > > > dd Int.new; # 0 > > dd Num.new; # 0e0 > > dd Complex.new; # <0+0i> > > dd Str.new; # "" > > > > If you want to leave it undefined, don't call .new on it? > > > > *confused* > > Only that there's a vocal school of thought in O-O that says new() > should only allocate memory and never put anything in there. Now I know > that Raku doesn't subscribe to that I have no problem. > > Cheers, > Peter >
