On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 20:47 -0500, Aaron Sherman wrote:
> Methods on numeric values (should be defined as pseudo-methods on
> unboxed numbers):
>
> chr
> hex
> oct
Sigh... well, now I know what Ctrl-Return does in Evolution :-/
Ok, so what I was getting at was that the above three are methods on
numbers. The following are methods on strings:
> index
> lc
> lcfirst
> length
> ord
> quotemeta
> rindex
> split
> study
> substr
> uc
> ucfirst
> unpack
You might also provide a procedural alias, but:
multi sub lenth(: Str ?$string = $CALLER::_) returns Int {
$string.size; # I think it was called that
}
These are real procedurals:
> pack
Hopefully we'll have something more flexible and user-extensible... oh
and pie. We should have pie :)
> pos
Grrr.. I can't recall what Larry had said about this... I know he
mentioned it once on this list. Maybe that was the ruleish "pos"?
> sprintf
Ah blessed sprintf. Were we adopting a Pythonish implicit sprintf? I
forget. Would that impact the existence of explicit sprintf? Probably
not.
> caller
Larry has said this is a rather hairy TBD in the past, though it might
have been discussed since.
> defined
A universal (pseudo-)method?
> prototype
> ref
See defined.
> die
> do
Gone, I think.... no?
> eval
> exit
> sleep
> bless
A12
> gmtime
> localtime
> time
> undef
How will undef($x) and $x=undef compare in p6? Has that been covered? I
have a vague memory, but nothing swimming to the surface.
> vec
This is pack with issues :)
> want
> caller
dup
