[Invitation] June Dallas.p6m Meeting @ Tue Jun 9 7pm – 10pm (perl6-language@perl.org)

2009-06-05 Thread jason switzer
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Re: perl6-language@perl.org

2002-08-02 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to Damian Conway: { temp sub false() {0} # etc. } I'm a bit concerned about what that would do to subroutines in other modules called during the block's execution. Perhaps my sub instead? PS: I wonder if the names would be FALSE and TRUE to

perl6-language@perl.org

2002-08-01 Thread Miko O'Sullivan
This is a small collection of ideas for the Perl6 language. Think of this posting as a light and refreshing summer fruit salad, composed of three ideas to while away the time during this August lull in perl6-language. Give split an

Re: perl6-language@perl.org

2002-08-01 Thread Dave Mitchell
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 06:02:14PM -0400, Miko O'Sullivan wrote: It would be really groovy if that expression could be split with the delimiters in place, something like this: tokens = split _/[?=*-+]/, $sql, keep='all'; and get back an array with these values: ('rank', '=', '?')

Re: perl6-language@perl.org

2002-08-01 Thread Uri Guttman
MO == Miko O'Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MO Give split an option to keep the delimiters in the returned array perl5 can already do that. just wrap the delim part in parens and split will return them. also by using a lookahead/behind as the regex split won't strip out that text and it

Re: perl6-language@perl.org

2002-08-01 Thread Graham Barr
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 06:02:14PM -0400, Miko O'Sullivan wrote: This is a small collection of ideas for the Perl6 language. Think of this posting as a light and refreshing summer fruit salad, composed of three ideas to while away the time during this August lull in perl6-language.

Re: perl6-language@perl.org

2002-08-01 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 08:30:05AM +1000, Damian Conway wrote: @arr[@arr.length] = $var; or maybe just : @arr[.length] = $var; (if an array were to be made the topic inside its own accessor brackets). I know this idea was just thrown in there, but I find that I really

Re: perl6-language@perl.org

2002-08-01 Thread David Wheeler
On Thursday, August 1, 2002, at 04:05 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote: Having the subscript operator change the topic is, IMHO, a rather strong violation of the principle of least surprise. I'm inclined to agree. I think I'd much rather not have it change there, since I'll frequently do stuff like

Re: perl6-language@perl.org

2002-08-01 Thread Dave Mitchell
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 06:17:11PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: do these instead: $bool += 0 ; ($x == $y) + 0 or even $x == $y || 0 -- Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow.

Re: perl6-language@perl.org

2002-08-01 Thread Damian Conway
Having the subscript operator change the topic is, IMHO, a rather strong violation of the principle of least surprise. I'm inclined to agree. I think I'd much rather not have it change there, since I'll frequently do stuff like this: my %hash; for qw(one two three) { %hash{$_} =