Kernel, Distro, VM, Perl, Systemic and Compiler object types not documented

[AlexDaniel]

• Distro
• Kernel
• VM
• PERL
• Systemic
• Compiler

Code:

say WHAT $*DISTRO;
say WHAT $*KERNEL;
say WHAT $*VM;
say WHAT $*PERL;

Result:

(Distro)
(Kernel)
(VM)
(Perl)

[ghost]

https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/beec02a6fa69e3ac290b4dd24c07d87a9f248b13/docs/announce/2014.05.md#L30

What does full blown object means in this context?

added $*KERNEL, $*DISTRO, $*VM, $*PERL as full blown objects

[AlexDaniel]

What does full blown object means in this context?

Actually, not much. But, for example, $*PERL previously returned a Hash.

Here is an example (results before and after it was changed):

<AlexDaniel> c: 0a6c98c05d4^,0a6c98c05d4 say $*PERL
<committable6> AlexDaniel, ¦0a6c98c05d4^: «{"compiler" => {"release-number" => "", "ver" => "2014.04-264-g3216e7334", "name" => "rakudo", "codename" => "", "build-date" => "2017-05-22T19:44:33Z"}, "name" => "rakudo"}» ¦0a6c98c: «Perl 6»

And we can see when exactly they were implemented like so:

<AlexDaniel> bisect: old=Bajor~100 new=Bajor say $*DISTRO
<bisectable6> AlexDaniel, Bisecting by exit code (old=Bajor~100 new=Bajor). Old exit code: 1
<bisectable6> AlexDaniel, bisect log: https://gist.github.com/25c485ccd0e67beed0a48e5330b155c0
<bisectable6> AlexDaniel, (2014-05-12) rakudo/rakudo@4555386

So here are the relevant commits:

• $*KERNEL – rakudo/rakudo@26ddce2
• $*DISTRO – rakudo/rakudo@4555386
• $*VM – rakudo/rakudo@65f75fb
• $*PERL – rakudo/rakudo@0a6c98c

[lizmat]

Initial version of Distro information pushed with 6fef43c

[lizmat]

Initial version of VM information pushed with db79ec9

[lizmat]

Initial version of Perl information pushed with b558e09

[lizmat]

Initial version of Kernel information pushed with df06cbc . Comments welcome!

Probably need to add Systemic and Compiler to this list. But too tired for that now.

[AlexDaniel]

Should we add a warning that all this stuff is not specced?