Perl 6 DocumentationDocumentation for routine gist
Documentation for routine gist, assembled from the following types:
class Mu
From Mu
routine gist
multi sub gist(Mu) returns Str
multi method gist() returns Str
Returns a string representation of the invocant, optimized for fast recognition by humans.
The default gist method in Mu re-dispatches to the perl method for defined invocants, and returns the type name in parenthesis for type object invocants. Many built-in classes override the case of instances to something more specific that may truncate output.
gist is the method that say calls implicitly, so say $something and say $something.gist generally produce the same output.
say Mu.gist; # (Mu)
say Mu.new.gist; # Mu.new()
class Exception
From Exception
method gist
Defined as:
multi method gist(Exception:D:)
Usage:
EXCEPTION.gist
Returns whatever the exception printer should produce for this exception. The default implementation returns message and backtrace separated by a newline.
class Date
From Date
method gist
Defined as:
multi method gist(Date:D:) returns Str:D
Usage:
DATE.gist
Returns the date in YYYY-MM-DD format (ISO 8601)
class Nil
From Nil
method gist
method gist() returns Str:D
Returns "Nil".