Re: What does ^parents really tell you?

2018-07-31 Thread Siavash
"Returns the list of parent classes. By default it stops at Cool, Any or Mu, which you can suppress by supplying the :all adverb. With :tree, a nested list is returned." https://docs.perl6.org/routine/parents On 2018-07-29 21:57:21 +0430, Joseph Brenner wrote: > If you look at the type

Re: What does ^parents really tell you?

2018-07-30 Thread Joseph Brenner
Thanks! Both of these are workable, but the ^mro (method resolution order, I presume) is closer to what I wanted just now: my $stringy = 'abc'; say $stringy.^name; # Str say $stringy.^parents(:all); # ((Cool) (Any) (Mu)) say $stringy.^mro; # ((Str) (Cool) (Any)

Re: What does ^parents really tell you?

2018-07-29 Thread Laurent Rosenfeld via perl6-users
Hi, Try this: my $stringy = "abc"; say $stringy.^parents(:all); This should display: ((Cool) (Any) (Mu)) Cheers, Laurent. 2018-07-29 19:27 GMT+02:00 Joseph Brenner : > If you look at the type diagram: > > https://docs.perl6.org/type/Str#___top > > You can see that: >Str is Cool is

Re: What does ^parents really tell you?

2018-07-29 Thread Brandon Allbery
I think you want ^mro? On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 1:28 PM Joseph Brenner wrote: > If you look at the type diagram: > > https://docs.perl6.org/type/Str#___top > > You can see that: >Str is Cool is Any is Mu > > But if you use the ^parents method on a string, you don't get > "Cool", instead

What does ^parents really tell you?

2018-07-29 Thread Joseph Brenner
If you look at the type diagram: https://docs.perl6.org/type/Str#___top You can see that: Str is Cool is Any is Mu But if you use the ^parents method on a string, you don't get "Cool", instead you get "()": my $stringy = "abc"; say $stringy.^name; # Str say