On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 04:45:16PM +0100, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > Todd > > I'm answering this question in the main list to explain some shortcuts. > > Just to make sure it all works (if Windows will accept GTK), copy the > program from the Readme to a script file and run it with raku. > > Playing around with it should make things clear. > > On 07/06/2020 07:16, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: [snip] > > 7) why is there no "show-countdown"? > > There is! `:show-countdown` is named parameter to the method 'show', and an > example is shown. > > By default `:show-countdown` is True, so there is no need to set it if you > want a countdown. If you dont want a count-down shown, then you need to set > `:!show-countdown` , which in itself is a shortcut for > `show-countdown(True)` . This was one of the examples.
Just a minor point: ITYM "a shortcut for show_countdown(False)" :) > Those shortcuts are becoming fairly common raku idioms. I didn't think it > would be necessary to document them. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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