Can you give me an example of the former?
I can't think of any off the top of my head.
Scalar value @foo[$bar] better written as $foo[$bar], for one.
If part of Perl's breeding is autovivication and interpretation of undef as
0 or "" in the appropriate context, why should Perl
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:49:45AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 02:14:52AM +, Simon Cozens wrote:
Yes. And the modules on CPAN that already do this are interesting too.
Oh, bother. Oh well, I've got builtinify (which was actually the point of the
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On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:17:56 -0600, "David L. Nicol"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"currying" used in a fascinating context: an experimental
language in which
http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/madore/programs/unlambda/#tut
In that vein, perhaps
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 12:10:53PM -0600, Garrett Goebel wrote:
o Will experiences from Ruby be assimilated back into Perl?
o What impact will C# and .NET have on Perl 6? Don't forget
Larry's required reading recommendation:
http://windows.oreilly.com/news/hejlsberg_0800.html
From: Dan Sugalski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
At 07:20 PM 2/19/2001 -0800, Edward Peschko wrote:
The RFC project should be ongoing and more adaptive.
It's my understanding that this is, in fact, the plan. The
only reason things have paused (and it is a pause, not a
stop) is that we're
At 05:27 PM 2/19/01 +, Piers Cawley wrote:
Peter Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't want to DWIM this. Would it be so bad to have to type
GetOptions (foo = \my ($foo),
bar = \my $bar);
If you're really all for maintainability, then surely you mean:
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and John Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] whispered
:
| Yep; the perl manpage has said, since time immemorial, that
| the fact that -w was not on by default is a BUG.
I don't know that I would say time immemorial. It wasn't in the man for
4.036. I can only find man
On Tuesday 20 February 2001 14:45, Stephen P. Potter wrote:
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and John Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
whispered
:
| Yep; the perl manpage has said, since time immemorial, that
| the fact that -w was not on by default is a BUG.
I don't know that I would say time
Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
And there's a difference between warnings originating because something has
gone wrong and those originating because I'm doing something particularly
perlish. Unfortunately, -w doesn't (and probably can't) tell the
difference.
Can you give me an example of the
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 03:49:13AM +, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 01:58:35PM -0700, Tony Olekshy wrote:
Hi, it's me again, the guy who won't shut up about exception handling.
I'm trying,
I'm catching.
And I'm thowing (up :)
Graham.
On Tuesday 20 February 2001 16:03, John Porter wrote:
Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
And there's a difference between warnings originating because something
has
gone wrong and those originating because I'm doing something
particularly
perlish. Unfortunately, -w doesn't (and probably
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 16:31:35 -0500, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
Scalar value @foo[$bar] better written as $foo[$bar], for one.
I agree on this one (hash slices too), if this expression is in list
context. There is no error in
@r = map { blah } @foo{$bar};
--
Bart.
What it boils down to is, warnings are for perl to tell you
when you probably made a logic error, based on the perl code
it sees. What some people might think is merely unperlish
code, others might say is "horribly wrong".
--
John Porter
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:33:50PM -0500, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
On Tuesday 20 February 2001 19:34, Edward Peschko wrote:
Well, for one, your example is ill-considered. You are going to get
autovivification saying:
The two ideas were disjoint. The example wasn't an example of
On Tuesday 20 February 2001 22:03, Edward Peschko wrote:
I *like* the interpretation of undef as 0 and "". It's useful.
Sometimes.
Sometimes it's not. And that's fine.
No that's NOT fine. It leads to 'find the needle in the haystack' sort of
problems. If you get 1450 'use of undef
This isn't an addition to the language that you're talking about - it's
changing some of the fundamental behavior of the language. It's saying
that no longer is Perl a loose, powerful language - oh, you want BD? well,
we can do that for you too - but rather that Perl is just another
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
On Tuesday 20 February 2001 17:38, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:
I have created perl6-announce-pdd. Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
for clues.
How should the submission process work? As for the RFC's?
Can you confirm the actual submission address?
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