John == John Siracusa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John (Can I pre-order the Perl 6 Camel or what? ;)
Of course. You'll almost certainly visit the nodes before the subnodes
in the documentation.
:-)
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On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 04:15:46PM -0600, David M. Lloyd wrote:
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Damian Conway wrote:
To me Cis const means: the *value* stored in the memory
implementing this variable cannot be changed. Which doesn't preclude
rebinding the variable to some *other* memory.
But
Aaron mused:
Then maybe we shouldn't call it 'is const'? Or maybe another tag is
needed in addition, like 'is unbindable' for the latter case.
Yes, I see the wisdom of not using const here, since it does carry
SO MUCH baggage. final has Java baggage. only, stable,
ro
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:37:39AM -0500, Aaron Sherman wrote:
: Yep, but in Perl5, this was never very clean or obvious to the
: casual programmer. Constants have been coming of age in Perl,
: and they're kind of scary if they're not constant.
On one hand, one might say that a developer
