On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:22:17PM -0800, Darren Duncan wrote: > pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote: >> @@ -1020,22 +1018,17 @@ >> C<< prefix:<int> >> >> -Coerces to type C<Int>. Floor semantics are used for fractional >> -values, including strings that appear to express fractional values. >> -That is, C<int($x)> must have the same result as C<int(+$x)> in all >> -cases. All implicit conversions to integer use the same semantics. >> +Deprecated, use the C<Int()> coercion or the C<floor> function. > > Why would the Perl 6 spec contain anything deprecated rather than simply > not having it at all?
Only because it was already implemented in earlier versions of Perl 6, and someone might look it up here. > Or do you mean "deprecated" as in the parser will explicitly recognize it > and die with a helpful error message, such as it does for Perl 5's "=~" > to catch brainos? Nope, that'll tend to either work anyway with int() or fail with two terms in a row for int $x. It might be worth a special message I suppose. > If you mean the latter, is there some central place (say in Synopsis 2) > that talks about this, such as in a "terminology" section? "When the > Perl 6 spec uses the word ... it means ..." You must think I'm writing a *real* spec. :) Larry
