Re: perl6-language Digest 1 Jul 2002 04:15:15 -0000 Issue 442

2002-07-02 Thread peter allen
Sorry, but I gotta put in a couple of comments which are basically subjective and don't realy need discussion. So, just for consideration: /^pat$/ /^pat\n?$/# ^ and $ mean string /^pat$/m /^^pat$$/ # no more /m /\A...(^pat$)*...\z/m

Re: Perl 6 Summary

2002-07-02 Thread Erik Steven Harrison
-- On 02 Jul 2002 09:56:46 +010 pdcawley summed: Ruby iterators Ruby interators were the subject of Erik Steven Harrison's post, which also referred to 'pass by name' and 'the Jensen Machine', and wanted to know 'the Perl 6 stance on the matter'. Nobody has yet stepped up to

Re: Perl 6 Summary

2002-07-02 Thread hachi
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 10:36:45AM -0700, Erik Steven Harrison wrote: Fortunately, a little research, has clarified a good bit of my question for me. So I think I can reposit it more clearly. Here goes. You all know what pass by reference is, right? And pass by value? Well, Algol 60

Re: Perl 6 Summary

2002-07-02 Thread Ashley Winters
On Tuesday 02 July 2002 11:15 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 10:36:45AM -0700, Erik Steven Harrison wrote: my $a = 'foo'; pass_by_name ( sub { print $a} ); sub pass_by_name { my $a = 'bar'; @_[0]; } Perhaps a pragma which does: my %MY :=

Re: Perl 6 Summary

2002-07-02 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 09:56:46AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sean O'Rourke [...] presented a larger [grammar] that appears to capture much more of the syntax found in Apocalypses and Exegeses 1 - 4 (5 just scares me). On that subject, am I correct that there is no Exegesis 5

Re: Some regex syntax foibles

2002-07-02 Thread Allison Randal
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 02:52:06PM -0500, Me wrote: Current p6 rx syntax aiui regarding embedded code: / #1 do (may include an explicit fail): { code } #2 do with implicit 'or fail' ( code ) #3 interp lit: $( { code } ) #4 interp as rx: { code

Re: Perl 6 Summary

2002-07-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 4:19 PM -0400 7/2/02, Mark J. Reed wrote: On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 09:56:46AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sean O'Rourke [...] presented a larger [grammar] that appears to capture much more of the syntax found in Apocalypses and Exegeses 1 - 4 (5 just scares me). On that

Re: Some regex syntax foibles

2002-07-02 Thread Allison Randal
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 03:59:57PM -0500, Allison Randal wrote: The parens in #3, C ( code ) , make sense if you think of s/3/2/ Allison

Big thanks for Bryan and Piers

2002-07-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
Doing volunteer work is so often a thankless task (and in many cases one that gets unwarranted abuse from random passers-by) that I wanted to take a moment to publically thank both Bryan Warnock and Piers Cawley, for perl 6 list summaries past and present. They're the single most visible

Re: Perl 6 Summary

2002-07-02 Thread Larry Wall
Are you sure Ruby isn't just using dynamic variables? My information may be old, but that's all it seemed like to me. A certain amount of confusion naturally arises in the Ruby world because of the absence of explicit declaration, so the name binding rules get to be rather complicated. In

Re: Perl 6 Summary

2002-07-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 1:07 PM -0700 7/2/02, Larry Wall wrote: Are you sure Ruby isn't just using dynamic variables? My information may be old, but that's all it seemed like to me. A certain amount of confusion naturally arises in the Ruby world because of the absence of explicit declaration, so the name binding

Re: Ruby iterators

2002-07-02 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 01:21:50PM -0700, Erik Steven Harrison wrote: Over on Perlmonks someone was asking about Perl 6's ability to have named argument passing. He also asked about the Jensen Machine and Ruby iterators. Now, just being on this list has taught me so much, but, I'm not quite

Re: Ruby iterators

2002-07-02 Thread Luke Palmer
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Michael G Schwern wrote: On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 01:21:50PM -0700, Erik Steven Harrison wrote: Over on Perlmonks someone was asking about Perl 6's ability to have named argument passing. He also asked about the Jensen Machine and Ruby iterators. Now, just being on this