If you go to docs.raku.org and type "^methods" into the search
window, you get a drop down looking something like this:
class
Method
Submethod
method
methods
Reference
^methods
methods
Submethods
Routine
method
Site Search
search entire site for ^methods
There's a bunch of stuff in there I don't particularly want to
see, but there's at least one entry that's definitely a hit:
Reference
^methods
That takes you to here:
https://docs.raku.org/language/classtut#index-entry-$CIRCUMFLEX_ACCENTmethods
On this, my browser leaves me at the top of the page, it doesn't jump
to the internal label-- it's presumably missing from the page: and
$CIRCUMFLEX_ACCENT is a variable that was supposed to interpolate
but got treated as a literal.
But anyway, I can do a text search for "^methods" now, and that
takes me to this section, where there's some good material about
"^methods":
https://docs.raku.org/language/classtut#Introspection
Every other entry in that drop down menu is a red herring.
Particularly bad is the "search entire site" because it uses
Google, and they don't treat characters like '^' as significant
(once upon a time they had a "code search" feature, but it's
long gone).
There *are* other place whether "^methods" is mentioned in the
documentation, but to find them I needed to do a git clone of
the project and grep the source files on my hard drive:
language/5to6-perlvar
Language/operators
Language/rb-nutshell
Language/structures
Type/ForeignCode
Type/Metamodel/MethodContainer
Type/Signature
Type/Stash
And actually, just the fact that the main search interface for
the raku docs is a drop-down is a bit of an annoyance for me-- it
no doubt seems very modern to some people, but I had to do a
screen shot of it just to get it to sit still so I could type up
the copy I included above.
