I didn't see this going back, sorry if I missed someone sending the mail.
There was a discussion on IRC on Sept 9th about the -X filetest
operators between at least audreyt, Juerd, myself and markstos. The
problem with these operators was that they conflicted in some cases with
the parsing of unary -, such as:
foo(-π * 2 * $r);
or just:
sub x($n) { $n*2 }
foo(-x $number);
To make this easier, it was proposed that:
1. All file tests have long names as methods which P6 prefers:
$file.file_exists;
$file.is_directory;
$file.file_bytes;
2. That these methods be provided on Str, any IO that knows how to find
its filesystem represenation, File* where applicable.
3. Test-like name be provided with leading _ instead of -:
while _e $file {...}
while $file._e {...}
4. They *might* be deprecated or have a "strict" mode associated.
5. There may or may not be value in providing method-like "-" names:
$file.-e
6. (my note) the long methods should be provided as an option export
from a File::... module.
That was what we had so far.
