Aaron Sherman writes:
Larry Wall wrote:
$_ $xType of Match ImpliedMatching Code
== = ==
Any Code$ scalar sub truth match if $x($_)
This bit of POD made me think about POD's lack of tabular formatting,
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 12:03:10AM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote:
: I've already had my epiphany about POD, though, so I'll spare doing it
: again. In short, there are two things that I see about POD that need to
: change:
:
: =over
:
: =item 1)
:
: C=directive lines shouldn't have to be in their
L:uke, just a note before I reply to you specifically: I understand your
concerns, and I have no interest in blurring the line between
presentation and markup, which I think ultimately is where your concern
comes from. In fact, if you re-read what I wrote (and what I write
below), you'll see
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Dan Hursh wrote:
Peter Behroozi wrote:
I'm not particular to any of the verbs used yet, but maybe that's
because I don't think of the as a general iterator, but more of a
gobbler-type creature (and formerly a globber, too). Could we try:
for $foo.fetch { ... }
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Larry Wall wrote:
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 10:07:02PM +0200, Juerd wrote:
: I'm proposing
:
: for zip(@foos, @bars, @xyzzies) - $foo, $bar, $xyzzy { ... }
: for %quux.kv - $key, $value { ... }
That'd probably work on the keys only if the hash was declared to
On 8/20/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luke Palmer) wrote:
So all the laziness goes into the array implementation. But you don't
even need to write your iterator fancily. If you just write your scalar
version of postcircumfix:, Perl will do the rest.
So if you use an iterator in list context, Perl will
$_ $xType of Match ImpliedMatching Code
== = ==
Any Code$ scalar sub truth match if $x($_)
How about making paragraphs that have a line like the divider one above
special? By simply parsing the =
Larry Wall skribis 2004-08-20 13:31 (-0700):
Unfortunately I'm not sure it passes the Are there already too many
ways to declare a sub? test...
I'm not seeing it as another way. Technically, of course it is
different, but by the user, - and - will probably be seen as one
thing, with one of them
Larry Wall wrote:
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 09:21:02AM +0100, Matthew Walton wrote:
: It would be nice if rand behaved a bit more sanely in Perl 6. I can
: understand the reasoning for making rand 0 produce between 0 and 1, but
: that doesn't mean I have to like it.
What makes you think there was
Luke Palmer wrote:
Aaron Sherman writes:
H C$_ | C$x | Type of Match Implied | Matching Code
T Any | CodeC $ | scalar sub truth | match if C$x($_)
Oh, and BTW: My mailer seems to have snuck some extra noise in there. I
think it got confused and thought there was
Matthew Walton wrote:
Larry Wall wrote:
I suspect there's an argument that [0,0) ought to be considered undef
(which would conveniently numerify to 0 with an optional warning).
In the absence of a paradox value, undef would be fine there I think :-)
Too bad we don't have NaRN (Not a Random
David Green writes:
On 8/20/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luke Palmer) wrote:
So all the laziness goes into the array implementation. But you don't
even need to write your iterator fancily. If you just write your scalar
version of postcircumfix:, Perl will do the rest.
So if you use an iterator
Maybe this train has already left the station, but I find myself
preferring Kwiki syntax to POD these days... any chance we could
use Kwiki with WAFL for the Perl 6 POD? That of course has
already got tables.
(Still bracketing with the =for ... =cut directives, though.)
Just a thought...
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Luke Palmer wrote:
On the other hand, Larry had a good point. Why couldn't we do:
=begin table
...
=end table
For some sufficiently simple ...? Obviously this gives the formatter
control over how the table is formatted, which is arguably a bad thing
since it won't be implemented (POD tools are
Juerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sick would be if - were introduced to make the variable write-only ;)
Sicker still would be if - were introduced to make the variable
neither readable nor writeable. HTH.HAND.
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