Canonical list of builtins

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 06:39:01PM +1100, Damian Conway wrote:
> Autrijus wrote:
>
> >Is there other built-in methods not found in perl5 that you are
> >aware of?
> >[...]
> >I'd like to work out declarations and implementations
> >of them in one sweep, if possible. :-)
>
> Hah! Dream on! I don't think we have a canonical list anywhere (except in
> Larry's head).

Autrijus' question and suggestion is an excellent one -- I've often
wished for a good-sized list of Perl 6's built-ins. So, I've decided
to start one, and hopefully others can help flesh it out.

Thus far I've just started out with the standard operators and one or
two built-in functions, but it should be enough to give others an idea
for additions:

http://svn.perl.org/perl6/misc/trunk/builtins.pod

I'm putting this thread on perl6-compilers as being implementation-level
details for now, and we can kick any larger-scale language design
issues that we encounter over to perl6-language as appropriate.
We may discover that we need to migrate large-scale threads over to
that list, but we'll take things as they come.

Additions, patches, suggestions, criticisms, discussion welcome.

Pm