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From:
Damian Conway
Date:
June 17, 2005 15:18
Subject:
Re: Ignoring parameters
Message ID:
42B34C29.6070203@conway.org
John Siracusa wrote:

> (BTW, I'm not sure where those "./" thingies came from, but it's what GMail
> showed in your message.  I'm assuming it should just be ".")

No. There's now also a unary ./ operator in Perl 6.

Unary . calls a specified method on the current topic.
Unary ./ calls a specified method on the current invocant.

The point being that methods no longer topicalize their invocant. So you need 
to use ./ instead of . to call methods on an implicit invocant.

Damian

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