Re: RFC 155 - Remove geometric functions from core

2000-08-25 Thread GregLondon
Dan wrote: At 09:12 AM 8/25/00 -0400, Stephen P. Potter wrote: As you say, 200 lines isn't much. But combine that with the IPC, the environment, the system, etc it all adds up. Not to much, though. We've been down this road for perl 5. You'd be surprised at how little code gets removed if

Episode 4 - A New Version, part 2

2000-08-25 Thread GregLondon
(voice over) When we last left our heroes, Dan Sugalski-Walker , Master Larry Wall Damian-3P0, and FurB-D2 were on their way to find a fast ship. With the plans for perl 6 in the memory banks of FurB-D2, they were going to the Monterey System to announce the start of Perl 6 and to marshal

Re: RFC 127 (v1) Sane resolution to large function returns

2000-08-23 Thread GregLondon
Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: = =At 11:26 AM 8/23/00 -0700, Larry Wall wrote: = =I expect that we'll get more compile-time benefit from = = my HASH sub foo { = ... = } = = %bar = foo(); = =So how would you fill in the type in: = =my TYPE sub foo { = ... = if