On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 09:11:44PM +0300, Markus Laire wrote:
> And what about other types?
> e.g. if String can't ever be "best candidate" for Int, then does that
> mean that neither can Int ever be "best candidate" for Num, because
> they are different types?
Well, I think Num and Int *aren't* d
I'm sending this also to perl6-language, in case someone there knows
an answer to this.
On 6/23/06, Jonathan Scott Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't think so. I think the "best candidate" prose is about
choosing from types that have been specified, not autoconverting
between types such tha
Steffen Schwigon schrieb:
> At least the many keywords seem to be necessary to map the complexity
> of different paradigms possible in Perl6. Multimethods are not just
> overloading as in C++. Second, the different keywords declare
> different behaviour you can choose. Just read S06, it's explained
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 06:55:28PM +0300, Markus Laire wrote:
> On 6/23/06, Jonathan Scott Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >An alternate interpretation would be that the last one is actually a
> >compile-
> >time error because none of the sigs match (Int,Int) and for a call to
> >work with 2 Int
Hi All,
I would like to thank everyone for their illuminating examples
and prose. This has cleared up understanding for me.
Thanks again,
Chris
On 6/23/06, Markus Laire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 6/23/06, Jonathan Scott Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> An alternate interpretation would
On 6/23/06, Jonathan Scott Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
An alternate interpretation would be that the last one is actually a compile-
time error because none of the sigs match (Int,Int) and for a call to
work with 2 Int parameters, you'd need to be explicit:
talk(~123,3);
But I'm not sure wh
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 06:18:51PM +0300, Markus Laire wrote:
> multi sub talk (String $msg1, String $msg2) { say "$msg1 $msg2" }
> multi sub talk (String $msg, Int $times) { say $msg x $times; }
> multi sub talk (String $msg, Num $times) { say "Please use an integer"; }
> multi sub talk (String $m
On 6/23/06, Steffen Schwigon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Steffen Schwigon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> multi sub talk () { say 'Loose Talk Is Noose Talk.'; }
> multi sub talk (String $msg) { say $msg; }
> multi sub talk (String $msg, Int $times) { say $msg x $times; }
BTW, because we are j
> Multimethods are not just overloading as in C++.
To expand upon this point a little, you can use multimethods to do
pattern-matching in the style of ML and similar languages. So, to pinch
an example from the pugs tree (examples/functional/fp.p6)
multi sub length () returns Int { 0
Steffen Schwigon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> multi sub talk () { say 'Loose Talk Is Noose Talk.'; }
> multi sub talk (String $msg) { say $msg; }
> multi sub talk (String $msg, Int $times) { say $msg x $times; }
BTW, because we are just on-topic, can someone explain, when these
types above
"Chris Yocum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi All,
> At the risk of sounding a bit thick, I have a couple of questions
> about Perl6's multi keyword and mutilmethod in general. This seems
> like overloaded functions from C++ so why do we need a key word to
> declare them rather than using so
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