It's time for my weekly post to this old thread. The grammar has
grown enough to deserve more than one file, and is starting to change
in new directions. For example, it's now Turing-complete, if you have
a Parrot engine and a bit of spare time. Call it a primitive demo
version of some of Perl
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 04:43:34PM -0400, Melvin Smith wrote:
And side effects like I call you, you modify me invisibly seems
more like taking dangerous drugs than programming.
Yep, I warned you about calling that routine, now look what it did to
your brains.
Um, I shouldn't really
Chip Salzenberg writes:
Ouch. I gather, then, that nntp.perl.org does not house complete list
archives, or else the discussion was not on p6-language ... ?
It should have complete archives. It uses the same backend data as
the html version on archive.develooper.com.
On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 02:33, Sean O'Rourke wrote:
What's currently supported:
- if/elsif/else (even unless and the feared elsunless;)
When we talked about this last, I had been concerned about loops and
conditionals, but others had scoping concerns. Ok, perhaps there's no
way we can roll in
Aaron Sherman wrote:
An example:
$pid = fork() // -1;
if $pid 0 {
# error ...
} else unless $pid {
# Parent
} else if $pid 0 {
# Child
} else {
# Huh? Can't happen
}
Of course, your indentation implies a different syntax than
At 11:33 PM -0700 7/11/02, Sean O'Rourke wrote:
It's time for my weekly post to this old thread. The grammar has
grown enough to deserve more than one file, and is starting to change
in new directions. For example, it's now Turing-complete, if you have
a Parrot engine and a bit of spare time.
