On Wed Jan 14 03:41:13 2009, richardh wrote: > After playing with enums, I got the following: > > perl6 > > enum day <<:Sun(1) Mon Tue Wed Thr Fri Sat>>; my $x does day; > $x.pick; say $x > Use of uninitialized value .pick is implemented on enums now. Your example works, but note you probably meant say $x.pick - .pick is not in place.
> > enum day <<:Sun(1) Mon Tue Wed Thr Fri Sat>>; my $x does day; $x = > Tue; say $x > 2 > # If Sun -> 1, then Tue should be 3 > Rakudo doesn't parse pairs in there yet, so you need to use: enum day (:Sun(1), 'Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thr', 'Fri', 'Sat'); For now, which does work. (Sun is 1, Mon is 2, etc) > perl6 > > enum roman [ i => 1, x => 10, v => 5]; my $x does roman = v; say $x > too few arguments passed (0) - 1 params expected Note it should be (...) now not [...]. But now: enum roman ( i => 1, x => 10, v => 5 ); my $x does roman = v; say $x Gives 5. > > enum roman [ i => 1, x => 10, v => 5]; my $x does roman; $x = v; say $x > too few arguments passed (0) - 1 params expected This gives 5 too now. > > enum roman [ i => 1, x => 10, v => 5]; my $x does roman; $x='v'; say $x > v > You're just assigning a string to $x here, which has nothing to do with the enum value. So Rakudo is right here. > assigning v to $x should yield 10 as a value > Note v => 5, not 10. :-) > Summary, it seems that enum works so long as the underlying value is a > list starting at 0 > Well, there were other issues too, which I think are mostly fixed up now. But seems that in current Rakudo with enums improved today (aside from the separate non-enum-related issue of the quote parsing) things are working pretty much as you'd expect. Thanks, Jonathan
