The Raku glossary has a definition
https://docs.raku.org/language/glossary#Invocant
suggestion, link to that where the term appears.
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On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 9:16 AM William Michels via perl6-users <
perl6-users@perl.org> wrote:
> Inline:
>
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 12:49 AM Brad Gilbert <b2gi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Invocant is in the dictionary though.
> >
> > In fact it is from Latin.
> >
> > 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?
>
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 6:39 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <
> perl6-users@perl.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
>
