Re^7: Perl 6 is going to get a lot faster in 2013

Speaking of documentation, I was trying to figure out how to do some basic introspection stuff in the December release, and had no luck. Things like browsing through loaded modules/classes (keys %:: in Perl 5) and getting the current scope's variables (PadWalker), both useful for tab completion in the interpreter. Neither the regular nor the debugging interpreter seems to provide this information, and it looked like I might have to dig down into NQP or (shudder) Parrot to find it.

Is there a Perl 6-level way to get at this that I missed?

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Re^8: Perl 6 is going to get a lot faster in 2013 by moritz (Cardinal) on Feb 05, 2013 at 09:17 UTC
Pseudo-packages provides what you are looking for. For example: `{ my $x = 42; say MY::.keys; say MY::{ '$x' }; }` [download] Produces `$x $_ call_sig $DISPATCHER 42` [download] `call_sig` and `$DISPATCHER` are used internally, and better not touched :-) I've tested in on rakudo/HEAD, but should work fine in 2012.12 too, nothing significant changed in that code path since December. Perl 6 - the future is here, just unevenly distributed	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^9: Perl 6 is going to get a lot faster in 2013 by educated_foo (Vicar) on Feb 06, 2013 at 00:42 UTC
Thanks -- that's what I was looking for.	[reply]