pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote: > Author: ash > Date: 2010-01-19 17:34:28 +0100 (Tue, 19 Jan 2010) > New Revision: 29558 > > Added: > t/spec/S32-array/create.t > t/spec/S32-list/create.t > Modified: > docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Containers.pod > Log: > Adding some tests for List.new, Array.new, &list() and adding a description > to S32-List and S32-Array > > Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Containers.pod > =================================================================== > --- docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Containers.pod 2010-01-18 > 06:08:15 UTC (rev 29557) > +++ docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Containers.pod 2010-01-19 > 16:34:28 UTC (rev 29558) > @@ -120,6 +120,18 @@ > > =over > > +=item new > + > + our List multi method new(*...@args) > + > +Constructs a C<List> containing the arguments passed to the C<new> method.
Since the argument list is already a List (or very nearly), I don't see much sense in this constructor. > +=item list > + > + our List sub list(*...@args) > + > +Constructs a C<List> containing the arguments passed to the C<list> > subroutine. > + > =item cat > > our Cat multi cat ( @values ) That will be rather surprising. Imagine my @x = list 3, 4, :a<b>; With the definition above that would give a run-time error (because list() doesn't expect a named argument), but the programmer probably expects a three-item list with a Pair as last item. That's why people in #perl6 generally assume that list() is not a function, but probably some kind of macro, or special-cased by the compiler. Cheers, Moritz
