I tried to find the answers to these in the Synopses, but I couldn't.
Plan B is to ask the mailing list.
- What does the "first" method/subroutine return when no elements of
the list match? Does it return the empty list? Does the return value
count as undefined/failure?
- What type is the $buf argument to the IO::Readable::read method
supposed to be? Should it be a Buf, and, if so, does the size of the
Buf's elements matter? How would one indicate a desired element size
when reading to an uninitialized Buf? A similar question also applies
to IO::Writeable::write. (Also, "Writable" is misspelled.)
- How does one get/set the number/size of elements in a Buf object?
- Exactly what happens if & when a call to open() fails? Is an
exception thrown, and, if so, how does one catch it?
- How does one declare multiple variables of the same type with a
single "my" statement? Is it "my Int ($x, $y);", "my(Int $x, Int
$y);", or something else? Are the parentheses still necessary when
declaring more than one variable? What about when initializing more
than one variable?
- Is there some sort of shortcut (e.g., of the form ".‽method") for
calling a method on an object if the object is defined and returning
undef if it is not defined? I was hoping that ".?method" could do
this, but it doesn't seem to (in Rakudo, at least).
Thank you in advance,
Minimiscience
