On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 17:12 -0700, Nate Wiger wrote:
If Perl 6 is going to be successful, this means it must change the
fewest key things with the most benefits.
I think there's an assumption here that not only do I not hold but I do
not even understand.
Suppose that I am a game developer
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 06:39:34PM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote:
On 10/20/05, Nate Wiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Luke Palmer wrote:
The fact that we use . instead of - (like every other language on
the planet)?
You're using my argument for me - thanks. See above.
Huh? So you want to
On 10/21/05, Benjamin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 06:39:34PM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote:
Huh? So you want to go back to Perl 5's arrow? *Anybody* coming to
Perl 6 from some non-Perl 5 language is going to be more comfortable
with dot.
Unless it was Smalltalk,
On 10/21/05, Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/21/05, Benjamin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 06:39:34PM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote:
Huh? So you want to go back to Perl 5's arrow? *Anybody* coming to
Perl 6 from some non-Perl 5 language is going to be
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Luke Palmer wrote:
Huh? So you want to go back to Perl 5's arrow? *Anybody* coming to
Perl 6 from some non-Perl 5 language is going to be more comfortable
with dot.
(Also, I did like the arrow notation, but) how cool would be
@cool=grep -cool, @misc; # if compared to
Luke Palmer wrote:
Every regex engine in every language uses $1 or \1. This includes Java,
JavaScript, C, PHP, Python, awk, sed, the GNU regex libs, etc. Somehow
other languages seem ok with this, because it's a widely-used convention.
Perl 6's patterns are _not_ regexes anymore. But I doubt
On 2005-10-21 1:54 PM, Nate Wiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BTW, C and PHP both use - still.
C++ is probably more relevant than C, but since it inherited the syntax,
same diff. But in their case the underlying form is still a dot; A-B is
just syntactic sugar for (*A).B. The distinction involved
Feh - I really need to get on gmail's case for providing a keystroke
for Reply to All.
Rob
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From: Nate Wiger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Oct 21, 2005 2:38 PM
Subject: Re: $1 change issues [was Re: syntax for accessing multiple
versions of a module]
To: Rob
Luke Palmer wrote:
Okay, I may still be missing your point, so let me try to summarize
just to be sure we're on the same page: You say that the thing that
is going to hinder migration to Perl 6 is the fact that it's different
from Perl 5.
Intentionally trite oversimplification. My problem is
On 10/20/05, Nate Wiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Luke Palmer wrote:
Okay, I may still be missing your point, so let me try to summarize
just to be sure we're on the same page: You say that the thing that
is going to hinder migration to Perl 6 is the fact that it's different
from Perl
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 05:12:32PM -0700, Nate Wiger wrote:
Every regex engine in every language uses $1 or \1. This includes Java,
JavaScript, C, PHP, Python, awk, sed, the GNU regex libs, etc. Somehow
other languages seem ok with this, because it's a widely-used convention.
This quibbling
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