ti, 2006-01-03 kello 13:57 +, The Perl 6 Summarizer kirjoitti:
Planet Perl Six is a handy news aggregator of several Perl 6 related
sources.
http://planet6.perl.org/
I believe that is actually http://planetsix.perl.org
Thanks for the great summary!
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wolverian [EMAIL
Piers~
On 11/30/05, The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, I hopped into a taxi (and I use the word hopped advisedly) and
repaired straightway to King's Cross and thence home to Gateshead, where
my discomfort was somewhat ameliorated by the distraction of preparing
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote:
Perl 6 perlplexities
Michele Dondi worries that the increase in complexity of some aspects of
Perl 6 is much bigger than the increase in functionality that the
complexity buys us. In particular Michele is concerned that the Perl 6
On Nov 15, 2005, at 17:24, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote:
The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 2005-11-13
string_bitwise_*
Leo, it seems to boil down to a choice between throwing an
exception or
simply mashing everything together and marking the 'resulting bit
mess'
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote:
Slightly tangentially to this, Dan Sugalski blogged a couple of weeks
ago about his successes and failures with Parrot. The comments are worth
reading -- there's a fair few more or less well founded complaints about
the way the Perl 6
The Perl 6 Summarizer skribis 2005-11-04 14:34 (+):
$_ defaulting for mutating ops
Probably I have not been clear enough about that I no longer think this
is a good idea.
Juerd
--
http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html
http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html
HaloO,
The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote:
Meanwhile, in perl6-language
\(...)
Oh look, a thread in p6l that's still going more than a fortnight later.
How unusual.
Is a long running thread considered a bad thing on this list?
I have grasped so far, that spawning a new thread after
some
TSa skribis 2005-09-27 10:15 (+0200):
Is a long running thread considered a bad thing on this list?
Just like how a post being Warnocked can have one or more of several
causes, a long running thread can.
Some are bad, some are good.
As a thread becomes longer and more fanned out, it becomes
TSa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
HaloO,
The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote:
Meanwhile, in perl6-language
\(...)
Oh look, a thread in p6l that's still going more than a fortnight later.
How unusual.
Is a long running thread considered a bad thing on this list?
Nah, it's just hard to
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 18:12:23 +0100, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote:
Allomopherencing
Not satisfied with inventing Exceptuations, Yuval invented
Allomopherencing as well. Just don't ask me what it means because I
don't know.
It was just a bad joke on Exceptuation's expense ;-)
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote:
Writing pack, or something like it
Michele Dondi wondered how to write pack-like functions in Perl 6,
where the first argument is a string which specifies the signature of
the rest of the function call. The proposal stumped me, but maybe
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:11:02 +0100, The Perl 6 Summarizer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-09-17
Another week, another summary, and I'm running late. So:
This week in perl6-compiler
Bootstrapping the grammar
Uri Guttman had some thoughts on
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 09:12:32AM -0400, Buddha Buck wrote:
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:11:02 +0100, The Perl 6 Summarizer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-09-17
Another week, another summary, and I'm running late. So:
This week in perl6-compiler
At 1:26 PM +0100 8/9/04, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote:
Spilling problems
The thing about writing naive compilers for naive languages is you end
up with rather large Parrot subroutines. Dan's work project is
generating ~6000 line subs.
That was only for a program triggering degenerate
ICU outdated
Joshua Gatcomb noted that the ICU that comes with Parrot is, not to put
too fine a point on it, old and buggy. The ICU developers have suggested
that Parrot move to version 3.0. Josh proposed various ways of doing
this. Leo wants ICU out of the Parrot CVS, but Dan's
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley wrote:
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Care to explain what those are, O great math teacher?
What's a math teacher?
It's the right^H^H^H^H^HAmerican way to say maths teacher.
You mean American and 'right' are
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Subject: Re: This week's summary
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley wrote:
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Care to explain what those are, O great math teacher?
What's a math teacher?
It's the right^H^H^H^H^HAmerican way
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Butler, Gerald wrote:
sarcasm
Of course American and Right are synonymous! Just ask OUR WONDERFUL GOD (I
mean President) GEORGE W. BUSH. He'll tell ya'
/sarcasm
OK, gentlemen, this is both way off topic and starting to head into flame
war territory, so I suggest that
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote:
The infinite thread
Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at
least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack
surreal numbers into Perl 6.1 then that would
On 2004-07-28 at 20:55:28, Piers Cawley wrote:
What's a math teacher?
Oh, come now. You may refuse to *use* the Leftpondian short form, but
pretending not to *recognize* it is a bit much. :)
--
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Piers Cawley wrote:
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Care to explain what those are, O great math teacher?
What's a math teacher?
It's the right^H^H^H^H^HAmerican way to say maths teacher.
--
Brent Dax Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Perl and Parrot hacker
Oceania has always been
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote:
The infinite thread
Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at
least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack
surreal numbers into Perl 6.1 then that
The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote:
The infinite thread
Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at
least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack
surreal numbers into Perl 6.1 then that would be cool.
Care to explain what those are, O great math
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 10:29:15AM -0700, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote:
The infinite thread
Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at
least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack
surreal numbers into
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:29:15 -0700, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote:
The infinite thread
Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at
least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack
surreal
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[surreal numbers]
Care to explain what those are, O great math teacher?
Surreal Number theory was an attempt in the latter half of the
twentieth century to unify several existing sets of numbers (including
the complex numbers, generalized
Austin Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
--- The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, so the interview was on Tuesday 13th of July.
It went well; I'm going to be a maths teacher.
[...]
As we all know, time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a
banana. If you found this
--- The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, so the interview was on Tuesday 13th of July.
It went well; I'm going to be a maths teacher.
As usual, we begin with maths-geometry:
In Mathematics last week, one Pythagoras suggested there might be a
relationship between the sides of
The Perl 6 Summarizer skribis 2004-07-20 14:46 (+0100):
Another subthread discussed interpolation in strings. Larry's changed
his mind so that $file.ext is now interpreted as $object.method. You
need to do ${file}.ext or $( $file ).ext. Or maybe $«file».ext
by analogy with
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 19:15:49 +0200, Juerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Perl 6 Summarizer skribis 2004-07-20 14:46 (+0100):
Another subthread discussed interpolation in strings. Larry'schanged
his mind so that $file.ext is now interpreted as
$object.method. You
need to do ${file}.ext
Jonadab the Unsightly One [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Different OO models
Jonadab the Unsightly One had wondered about having objects
inheriting behaviour from objects rather than classes in Perl 6.
Urgle. I've completely failed to
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Piers Cawley wrote:
Jonadab the Unsightly One [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Different OO models
Jonadab the Unsightly One had wondered about having objects
inheriting behaviour from objects rather than classes
The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Different OO models
Jonadab the Unsightly One had wondered about having objects
inheriting behaviour from objects rather than classes in Perl 6.
Urgle. I've completely failed to explain myself so as to be
understood. That wasn't at
The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Congratulations Ion, don't forget to send in a patch to the CREDITS
file.
$ grep -1 Ion CREDITS
N: Ion Alexandru Morega
D: string.pmc
Thanks again for your summary,
leo
The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote:
Mmm... Pie-thon
Dan reminded everyone of the URL of the benchmark that's going to be run
for the Pie-thon. If Parrot doesn't run it faster than the C
implementation of Python, then Dan's going to get a pie in the face and
he'll have to spring for a
The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote:
Parrotbug reaches 0.0.1
Jerome Quelin responded to Dan's otherwise ignored request for a
parrot equivalent of perlbug when he offered an implementation of
parrotbug for everyone's perusal, but didn't go so far to add it to
the distribution. I don't think it's
On 10 Feb 2004, at 14:09, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote:
I wonder how long it'll be before someone reimplements
them in in PIR...
or Perl6 perchance.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Scott) writes:
On 10 Feb 2004, at 14:09, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote:
I wonder how long it'll be before someone reimplements
them in in PIR...
or Perl6 perchance.
Well, Perl6::Rules should be coming out soon, so that should help.
--
The problem with
At 12:36 PM -0500 1/13/04, Uri Guttman wrote:
TP6S == The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
TP6S Congratulations Dan
TP6S Melvin Smith offered his congratulations to Dan for the
TP6S first commercial use of Parrot. I think I can safely say we
TP6S all echo those
TP6S == The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
TP6S Congratulations Dan
TP6S Melvin Smith offered his congratulations to Dan for the
TP6S first commercial use of Parrot. I think I can safely say we
TP6S all echo those congratulations.
shouldn't that be
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Scott) writes:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Austin Hastings) writes:
PS: While I'm somewhat sympathetic to the fact that eu guys are trying to
spin up 200 years worth of amendments and supreme court decisions at the
same time, it's still a ratf*ck.
Sayeth the Summarizer:
Asked for pithy comments, chromatic gave good pith, noting that if he
'had a test case from everyone who asked When'll it be done and code
to pass a test case from everyone who said I'd like to help, but I
don't know where to start...' then he'd happily check
Uri Guttman wrote:
i say we just sell them a license to use the US constitution.
Bill Gates wrote:
What is it with these Linux guys?
i say we just sell them a license to use Windoze.
:-)
A
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Austin Hastings) writes:
PS: While I'm somewhat sympathetic to the fact that eu guys are trying to
spin up 200 years worth of amendments and supreme court decisions at the
same time, it's still a ratf*ck. Eu need to get eurselves a Larry.
Just
On 1/5/04 1:55 PM, Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote:
The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I confess I wouldn't be surprised if, by the end of the year, we haven't seen
the full implementation of at least one of the big non-Perl scripting
languages on top of Parrot.
I'm confused, are
The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I confess
I wouldn't be surprised if,
by the end of the year,
we haven't seen
the full implementation of
at least one of
the big
non-Perl
scripting languages
on top of Parrot.
Obviously you've been reading the proposed EU constitution.
AH == Austin Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
AH PS: While I'm somewhat sympathetic to the fact that eu guys are
AH trying to spin up 200 years worth of amendments and supreme court
AH decisions at the same time, it's still a ratf*ck. Eu need to get
AH eurselves a Larry. I wonder if
AH == Austin Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
-Original Message-
From: Uri Guttman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
but he if worked on that at the rate he is churning out apocalypses, it
would be another 200 years. this is not a knock on larry but a comment
on how large
From: Uri Guttman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
AH == Austin Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
-Original Message-
From: Uri Guttman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
but he if worked on that at the rate he is churning out apocalypses,
it
would be another 200 years. this is
According to Austin Hastings:
When you consider some of the issues, it's sort of obvious that they're
trying *real* hard not to say, Look the Americans solved this problem
already.
Three words: Second System Effect.
--
Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I
AH == Austin Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
reminds me of the great line: in EU they consider a 100 miles a long
distance, in the US we consider 100 years a long time. :)
AH That's very good. I'm going to recycle it. Do you know the author?
dunno. i have heard it from several
The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Me? I think Perl 6's design 'in the large' will be pretty much done once
Apocalypse 12 and its corresponding Exegesis are finished. Of course,
the devil is in the details, but I don't doubt that the hoped for
existence of a
At 07:55 PM 1/5/2004 +0100, Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote:
The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
people's salaries will depend on Parrot. I confess I wouldn't be
surprised if, by the end of the year, we haven't seen the full
implementation of at least one of the big non-Perl
Lars Balker Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Me? I think Perl 6's design 'in the large' will be pretty much
done once Apocalypse 12 and its corresponding Exegesis are
finished. Of course, the devil is in the details, but I don't
At 09:30 PM 1/5/2004 +, Piers Cawley wrote:
Melvin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 07:55 PM 1/5/2004 +0100, Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote:
The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
people's salaries will depend on Parrot. I confess I wouldn't be
surprised if, by the end of
Melvin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 09:30 PM 1/5/2004 +, Piers Cawley wrote:
Melvin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 07:55 PM 1/5/2004 +0100, Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote:
The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
people's salaries will depend on Parrot. I confess I
Thank you for a lovely Christmas Present.
Michael
On Dec 24, 2003, at 2:37 AM, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote:
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20031221
Welcome one and all to the penultimate Perl 6 Summary for 2003. The
nights are long, the air is cold, freezing fog made the journey
Michael Joyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thank you for a lovely Christmas Present.
Any time.
A. Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-12-16 11:57]:
bear in mind that the authors of the paper use the term
'trait' for what we're calling a 'role' (We already have
traits you see).
* The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-12-16 11:57]:
bear in mind that the authors of the paper use the term
'trait' for what we're calling a 'role' (We already have
traits you see).
http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~black/publications/TR_CSE_02-012.pdf
-- Traits paper
I
The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Vocabulary
If you're even vaguely interested in the workings of Perl 6's object
system, you need to read the referenced post.
Luke Palmer, worrying about people using Object related vocabulary in
subtly inconsistent ways,
Piers Cawley writes:
The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Vocabulary
If you're even vaguely interested in the workings of Perl 6's object
system, you need to read the referenced post.
Luke Palmer, worrying about people using Object related vocabulary in
Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley writes:
The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://groups.google.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This should, of course, read:
http://groups.google.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Or even:
http://groups.google.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
We
Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley wrote:
newsub and implicit registers
[...] ops [...] that IMCC needed to
track. Leo has a patch in his tree that deals with the issue.
Sorry, my posting seems to have been misleading. The register tracking
code is in the CVS
Piers Cawley wrote:
newsub and implicit registers
[...] ops [...] that IMCC needed to
track. Leo has a patch in his tree that deals with the issue.
Sorry, my posting seems to have been misleading. The register tracking
code is in the CVS tree.
Thanks again for your summaries,
leo
Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Parrot Calling Convention Confusion
... -- I thought they were exactly the same as an unprototyped call,
but you invoke the return continuation (P1) instead of P0, the other
registers are set up
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Parrot Calling Convention Confusion
... -- I thought they were exactly the same as an unprototyped call,
but you invoke the return continuation (P1) instead of P0, the other
registers are set up exactly as if you were making an unprototyped
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Object Freezing
[ ... ]
... The upshot is that we're doing it Dan's way; Glorious Leader
continues to trump Pumpking Patchmonster.
As this is a summary, abbove sentence is a summary as well. The reality
is more complex. The final implementation
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... spending the morning of your 36th birthday
Happy birthday to you and us.
l - A full year has passed, hasn't it? - eo
Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... spending the morning of your 36th birthday
Happy birthday to you and us.
Thanks.
Piers Cawley:
# Welcome to this week's Perl 6 Summary. And what better way could
there
# be of spending the morning of your 36th birthday than by reading
# through a bunch of old messages in a couple of mailing lists and
# boiling them down into a summary?
Happy birthday, Piers.
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Subject:RE: This week's summary
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Brent Dax wrote:
Piers Cawley:
# Welcome to this week's Perl 6 Summary. And what better way could
there
# be of spending the morning of your 36th birthday than by reading
# through a bunch of old
- Original Message -
From: Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 5:42 AM
Subject: This Week's Summary
Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030810
Another week, another summary. How predictable is
Hi Piers,
Before you're deluged...
What's Ponie? Ponie is 'Perl On New Internal Architecture'
Err, no, because then it would have been Ponia (presumably the singular
feminine). The project is definitely Ponie (the neuter plural).
And, for the record, the retro-acronym was actually: 'Perl on
Piers Cawley wrote:
Small Perl task for the interested
Want to get involved in the Parrot development process? Don't know much
about Virtual Machine design and implementation? Do know Perl? Dan has a
small but interesting task for you.
At present, Parrot gets built without any
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
More CPS shenanigans
I get the strong feeling that Leo Tötsch isn't entirely happy with the
new Continuation Passing Style regime.
No, I'm really happy with CPS. Restoring the whole context by invoke'ing
the return continuation is a very elegant
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
He's worried that the P6C tests
break,
... albeit this is still an issue. Nobody answered, if we need another
Sub class implementing the old invoke/ret scheme ...
I'd say no. P6C is now compiling to
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 06:14:52AM -0700, Sean O'Rourke wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
[...] Nobody answered, if we need another
Sub class implementing the old invoke/ret scheme ...
I'd say no. P6C is now compiling to an obsolete architecture.
While we should all
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:58:32AM -0700, David Storrs wrote:
/me shows ignorance yet again.
For those of us who are not hardware types...what is the new
machine? The Itanium? Does that really have enough market
penetration at this point to be a worthy target? Or is the idea that,
by the
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:04:29PM +0100, Andrew Wilson wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:58:32AM -0700, David Storrs wrote:
/me shows ignorance yet again.
For those of us who are not hardware types...what is the new
machine? The Itanium? Does that really have enough market
The
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:26:22PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
Multimethod dispatch?
Adam Turoff asked if multimethod dispatch (MMD) was really *the* Right
Thing (it's definitely *a* Right Thing) and suggested that it would be
more Perlish to allow the programmer to override the
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Adam Turoff wrote:
- roll-your-own inheritance mechanisms (see NEXT.pm)
On a related note, you might also want to take a look at CLOS (the Common
Lisp Object System) where it talks about method selection. They've got a
pretty clear and general model that describes every
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:26:22PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
Multimethod dispatch?
Assuming I'm not misunderstanding what Adam is after, this has come up
before (I think I asked about value based dispatch a few months back)
and I can't remember if the decision was that MMD didn't
On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 07:13 AM, Adam Turoff wrote:
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:26:22PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
Assuming I'm not misunderstanding what Adam is after, this has
come up
before (I think I asked about value based dispatch a few months
back)
and I can't remember if
On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 09:19 AM, Mark A. Biggar wrote:
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:26:22PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
multi factorial (0) { 1 }
multi factorial ($n) { $n * factorial($n - 1) }
That's a bad example, as it's really not MMD. It's a partially
pre-memoized function
On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 03:45 PM, Dave Whipp wrote:
Michael Lazzaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
multi bar (Foo $self, int $i : ); # semicolon optional
pedantic
I think you meant colon optional. The semi-colon is, I think, a
syntax
error. You need the yada-yada-yada thing: {...}.
Apologies for nitpicking, but you misspelled my name as Mattijs 4 times
in the summary. The right spelling is Matthijs :-)
--
Matthijs van Duin -- May the Forth be with you!
Matthijs van Duin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Apologies for nitpicking, but you misspelled my name as Mattijs 4
times in the summary. The right spelling is Matthijs :-)
Argh! Kill me now. Please. Damn, damn and double damn. I say, Simon
old chap, you couldn't fix that on the perl.com site could
Dynamic scoping (take 2)
... a system of implicit argument passing ...
Larry pointed out [an error about threads]
The system of implicit argument passing was
intended to eliminate the need to use globals.
I was wrong about threads but that doesn't
change my view that globals are mostly evil.
There's something wrong with your links to the messages in the
documentation list. Whenever I click on one, I get the message Unable to
find thread. Please recheck the URL.
Joe Gottman
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