Re: (multi)subroutine names

2005-06-06 Thread TSa (Thomas Sandlaß)
Rod Adams wrote: It used to be fooArray,Int fooHash,Int And has become foo:(Array,Int) foo:(Hash,Int) The return type arrow -- inside the :() type spec is not yet approved by @Larry. In my mind, the more interesting question is what does foo without the specifiers return when

Re: mod/div

2005-06-06 Thread Roger Hale
Just a nit, for the record, with no great perl relevance: TSa (Thomas Sandla) wrote: But what is the first quarter of year 0? 0.25? Sure (of course if there were a year 0 instead of becoming 1 BCE) And the last quarter of year -1? -0.25? Sure That works numerically, but March of a year is

Re: reduce metaoperator on an empty list

2005-06-06 Thread Roger Hale
Damian Conway wrote: Deborah Pickett wrote: You are going to see empty lists more often than you think in expressions like $product = [*] @array; and having to write that as $product = [*] 1, @array; just to protect against a common case doesn't exactly flaunt Perl's DWIMmery to me. I

What the heck is... wrong with Parrot development?

2005-06-06 Thread anonymous coward
It's a funny old world... wrote Dan Sugalski on June 04, 2005 in his Squawks of the Parrot blog. Go and see: http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/blog/archives/000400.html. Hence the subject. What the heck is wrong with Parrot development? anonymous coward

Re: What the heck is... wrong with Parrot development?

2005-06-06 Thread Fagyal Csongor
Larry, On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 04:31:01PM +0200, anonymous coward wrote: : It's a funny old world... : wrote Dan Sugalski on June 04, 2005 in his Squawks of the Parrot blog. : Go and see: http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/blog/archives/000400.html. : : Hence the subject. : : What the heck is wrong

Re: What the heck is... wrong with Parrot development?

2005-06-06 Thread Sam Vilain
Fagyal Csongor wrote: With all respect, I think this is a very important thing which needs attention, and I hope that you will help us to clarify the situation. I am pretty sure Dan did not leave because he had a bad day - we know he Dan's position was very stressful, he had people from all

Re: What the heck is... wrong with Parrot development?

2005-06-06 Thread Uri Guttman
SV == Sam Vilain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SV Please honour his decision to bow out gracefully without turning it into SV a childish battle of egos. SV In the meantime let us celebrate 5 years of Dan Sugalski's contribution SV to the Parrot and Perl 6 project. SV Three cheers for

Re: reduce metaoperator on an empty list

2005-06-06 Thread Sam Vilain
Damian Conway wrote: What you want is: $product = ([*] @values err 0); Or: $factorial = ([*] 1..$n err 1); The err operator bind only to the point on the instruction it is attached to, ie it's not a shortcut for eval(), right? I'm just seeing some edge cases here for custom defined