Re: Beating string numerification to death [Was: Re: the handiness of undef becoming NaN (when you want that)]

2001-10-25 Thread Larry Wall
Aaron Sherman writes: : On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:30:00AM +1000, Damian Conway wrote: : : Glenn wrote: : : Have I missed anything? : : Perhaps you've missed one thing. : : [snip] : : Perl 6 could provide a pragma to produce a warning on the first :

Re: Beating string numerification to death [Was: Re: the handiness of undef becoming NaN (when you want that)]

2001-10-25 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:42:15AM -0700, Glenn Linderman wrote: So then the lexically scoped operator:+ wouldn't be able to achieve the goal of my suggested implicit numerification warning... the goal being the ability to ensure that there are no implicit numerifications, that all

Re: Beating string numerification to death [Was: Re: the handiness of undef becoming NaN (when you want that)]

2001-10-25 Thread Glenn Linderman
Aaron Sherman wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:42:15AM -0700, Glenn Linderman wrote: So then the lexically scoped operator:+ wouldn't be able to achieve the goal of my suggested implicit numerification warning... the goal being the ability to ensure that there are no implicit

Perl 6 - Cheerleaders?

2001-10-25 Thread Garrett Goebel
Piers Cawley has written a nice article entitled: Perl 6 : Not Just For Damians. If the hair on the back of your neck rises when thinking about Perl 6, or even if it doesn't... give it a read. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/10/23/damians.html

Re: Perl 6 - Cheerleaders?

2001-10-25 Thread Uri Guttman
GG == Garrett Goebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GG Piers Cawley has written a nice article entitled: Perl 6 : Not GG Just For Damians. GG If the hair on the back of your neck rises when thinking about GG Perl 6, or even if it doesn't... give it a read. GG