Re: Should C<grep> and C<reverse> work in C<Any> ?

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 05:36:26PM +0200, TSa wrote:
> This would save lots of overloads in Any in favor of a handful of
> standard coercions. These need proper anchorage in the dispatch
> system, of course. That to me means we need some definition of
> "conversion quality" and "conversion distance".

So far in Rakudo we haven't done any "overloads in Any" --
what has happened instead is that the methods in question have
simply moved into the Any class and out of whatever class they
were in previously.

Pm

• Should C<grep> and C<reverse> work in C<Any> ? by Patrick R. Michaud
• Re: Should C<grep> and C<reverse> work in C<Any> ? by Ovid
• Re: Should C<grep> and C<reverse> work in C<Any> ? by Moritz Lenz
• Re: Should C<grep> and C<reverse> work in C<Any> ? by Patrick R. Michaud
• Re: Should C<grep> and C<reverse> work in C<Any> ? by Larry Wall
• Re: Should C<grep> and C<reverse> work in C<Any> ? by TSa
• Re: Should C<grep> and C<reverse> work in C<Any> ? by Patrick R. Michaud
• Re: Should C<grep> and C<reverse> work in C<Any> ? by Patrick R. Michaud
• Re: Should C<grep> and C<reverse> work in C<Any> ? by Ovid
• Re: Should C<grep> and C<reverse> work in C<Any> ? by Trey Harris