Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation

2000-08-02 Thread Michael Stevens
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 02:51:20PM -0400, John Porter wrote: Peter Scott wrote: Filehandles should use C* as a type prefix if typeglobs are eliminated. I missed previous discussion of this (if there was any), but it's an idea I've already thought about. It has my vote, fwiw. I have to say

Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation

2000-08-02 Thread Michael Stevens
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 06:28:47PM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote: I'd also like some 'what are you' introspection I can do on all scalars, on a more formal basis than 'ref'. Either an expansion of the 'ref' functionality to cover filehandles, or a more general system... What do you mean,

Re: RFC stuff

2000-08-02 Thread Michael Stevens
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 08:13:08PM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote: Making us subscribe to infinite lists to wear us down? You know about perl6-all, right? Nope, I didn't. Which is the very problem of which I was speaking. Secret cabals and all. It was publicly announced, although there's a