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On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 12:49 AM Brad Gilbert <b2gi...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Invocant is in the dictionary though.
>
> In fact it is from Latin.
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> Origin & history:
> Derived from in- + vocō ("I call").
>
> Verb:
> I invoke
> I call (by name)
>
> In fact that is pretty close to the same meaning as it is used in the Raku
> docs.
>
> It is the object that we are calling (aka invoking) a method on.
Maybe we can meet Todd halfway?
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> On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 6:39 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
> <perl6-users@perl.org> wrote:
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>> On 2020-08-28 23:51, Tobias Boege wrote:
>> > On Fri, 28 Aug 2020, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
>> >> https://docs.raku.org/type/IO::Path#method_lines
>> >>
>> >> (IO::Path) method lines
>> >>
>> >> Defined as:
>> >>
>> >> method lines(IO::Path:D: :$chomp = True, :$enc = 'utf8', :$nl-in =
>> >> ["\x0A", "\r\n"], |c --> Seq:D)
>> >>
>> >> Opens the invocant and returns its lines.
"Opens the invocant (i.e. the object being called) and returns its lines."
[Add text in parentheses above only once per method, when the word
'invocant' is first used].
Comments?
Best Regards, Bill.
