Hi All,
Not to beat a dead horse, but Perl 6's docs are
miserably hard to understand.
Here is a comparison of Perl 5's perldocs and Perl 6's
docs:
Perl 5:
$ perldoc -f index
index STR,SUBSTR,POSITION
index STR,SUBSTR
The index function searches for one string within another,
Todd, some free advice:
1. DOCUMENTATION
The docs are a volunteer effort. You can help by contributing changes
and submitting issues.
Try to use the docs first instead of using an internet search. That
will help you submit issues if you don't find what you are looking
for.
You really need to b
Hi Todd,
I fully agree with Tom B.'s message that you should really set out to read
a Perl 6 book. Many of the things you asked are covered in most of the
available books. And the available books are easier than the official
documentation for a beginner to start understand the basic underlying
con
It's a very good read. :)
On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 at 16:19 Laurent Rosenfeld via perl6-users <
perl6-users@perl.org> wrote:
> Hi Todd,
>
> I fully agree with Tom B.'s message that you should really set out to read
> a Perl 6 book. Many of the things you asked are covered in most of the
> available bo
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 10:31 AM Simon Proctor wrote:
>
> It's a very good read. :)
Yes it is!
One of the paradoxes of documentation, and the teaching of many
abstract topics, is that those with the most in-depth knowledge of the
topic,are the least suitable to explain it, precisely because of that
knowledge. They can't remember what it felt like not to know
something, and they've usually l
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 10:39 AM Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> One of the paradoxes of documentation, and the teaching of many
> abstract topics, is that those with the most in-depth knowledge of the
...
I agree with you for the most part. But the docs DO have examples,
and any re
On 09/11/2018 04:53 AM, Tom Browder wrote:
Todd, some free advice:
1. DOCUMENTATION
The docs are a volunteer effort. You can help by contributing changes
and submitting issues.
Hi Tom,
I have started contributing to this effort as well.
One of the big hurdles is that those maintaining the
d
On 09/11/2018 08:52 AM, Tom Browder wrote:
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 10:39 AM Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote:
One of the paradoxes of documentation, and the teaching of many
abstract topics, is that those with the most in-depth knowledge of the
...
I agree with you for the most part.
On 09/11/2018 08:17 AM, Laurent Rosenfeld via perl6-users wrote:
Hi Todd,
I fully agree with Tom B.'s message that you should really set out to
read a Perl 6 book. Many of the things you asked are covered in most of
the available books. And the available books are easier than the
official doc
The signatures in the docs are often the exact same signatures
as the code they are documenting.
> Str.^lookup('contains').candidates.map: *.signature.say
(Str:D: Cool:D $needle, *%_)
(Str:D: Str:D $needle, *%_)
(Str:D: Cool:D $needle, Cool:D $pos, *%_)
(Str:D: Str:D $needle, I
Ordinarily I would agree with you. But I know my own brain and
how it works. I only learn by doing. Have tried to change that
and can't.
A good tutorial book *will* make you "do." The brian d foy book does
exactly that with things to try, and questions to explore in your own
code. It takes
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