Aaron Sherman (via RT) wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Aaron Sherman > # Please include the string: [perl #68306] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=68306 > > > > I'm working in a firewalled environment today where I can't get access to > git, so here's what I see in 2009-07 downloaded from > http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads > > S12 says: > > "The .^methods method returns method-descriptors containing: > > name the name of the method > signature the parameters of the method > as the coercion type of the method > multi whether duplicate names are allowed > do the method body" > > > > That doesn't tell me exactly what I'm looking for, but I tried: > >> say Str.^methods[0] > sprintf > > Which looks suspiciously like a single string,
It's not, it's just an object that returns the method name in string context. > but just in case, I tried: > >> say Str.^methods[0]<signature> > get_pmc_keyed() not implemented in class 'Sub' You're trying to use a hash key, not calling a method. $ perl6 -e 'say Str.^methods[0].signature' Signature()<0x7fff2799f5b0> $ perl6 -e 'say Str.^methods[0].signature.perl' :(Object self, Any $encoding?, Any $nf?, Object *%_) (Note that the order of the returned methods is not fixed, so you might see something different). >> say Str.^methods[0].name > pred Yes, there's a method 'pred'. So what? > eh? The rest of the names (as, multi, do) don't seem to exist at all. I > expect that this is because I'm not actually looking at a "descriptor" at > all, but rather a Sub object that stringifies itself to "sprintf". Is that a > bug in Rakudo or S12? I think it's just not yet implemented. Cheers, Moritz
