Re: Musings on operator overloading (was: File-Fu overloading)

::Tiny-new(); $h-body($h-head($h-title('FooPage')), $h-body(...)); I'd love to be able to drop the '$h-' everywhere. Like this: $h-body( head( title( 'FooPage' ) ), body( ... ) ); I guess that would/could be a related mechanism. -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: Pair notation for number radix

'html' would force a (user defined) html upgrade on the interpolated text. On the other hand my $amp = 'amp;'html; my $body = body$amp/bodyhtml; # gets bodyamp;/body -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: Pair notation for number radix

On 4 Dec 2007, at 16:19, Andy Armstrong wrote: my $amp = ''; # No unit, plain text my $body = body$amp/bodyhtml; # gets bodyamp;/body Per http://search.cpan.org/~andya/String-Smart/ I should say. -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: xml and perl 6

On 28 Nov 2007, at 18:28, James Fuller wrote: A few things I could imagine; native XML data type (and whatever that means at this late stage) What might that mean at any stage? -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: x, xx, and negative counts

produces a padding string of the same length. -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

Re: Is Perl 6 too late?

could avoid them all? -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

Re: Is Perl 6 too late?

On 14 May 2007, at 12:31, Thomas Wittek wrote: How did C, C#, Java, Ruby, Python, Lua, JavaScript, Visual Basic, etc. know? They didn't. If there is a new release, you always have to check if your code still runs. I think that may be the point I'm making. -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

Re: Enhanced enumerations

machines would be nice too. That is all :) -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

Re: for ... else

of it was a pretty common idiom. -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

Re: Don't tell me what I can't do!

of subclasses that can circumvent security restrictions in the base class. I wonder if some of the debate here was informed by the perception that 'final' is a valuable feature in Java whereas actually it's a hacky bodge to solve a couple of language design problems? -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

Re: renaming grep to where

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Re: renaming grep to where

On 20 Sep 2006, at 19:05, Larry Wall wrote: Let it be. :) I could just as easily have called for a revolution :) -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net