Re: backticks

2004-04-17 Thread Matthew Walton
Juerd wrote: Sean O'Rourke skribis 2004-04-15 8:55 (-0700): I find that there are still plenty of contexts in which `` is nice and security is irrelevant. This is the second time in this thread that I read about security being unimportant. I still don't know what to say about it, though I feel

Re: backticks

2004-04-17 Thread Juerd
John Williams skribis 2004-04-16 18:32 (-0600): You didn't answer his question, which is less complicated? Wasn't that a rhetociral question? Juerd

How to read and write files?

2004-04-17 Thread Andrew Shitov
I think I have somesing missed: is it possible to open (that is read and write) files in perl6 programmes? Those programmes that can be run under current parrot release. Thanks.

RE: Apocalypse 12

2004-04-17 Thread Austin Hastings
From: chromatic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl.com has just made A12 available: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/04/16/a12.html Warning -- 20 pages, the first of which is a table of contents. Enjoy, -- c This week I've celebrated my birthday, had my jaw unwired, uncovered five job

Re: backticks

2004-04-17 Thread Trey Harris
In a message dated Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Juerd writes: Except for the shocking number of closed-minded people on this list. Stop it, stop it, STOP IT. I'm not asking you to stop voicing your opinion about the discussion at hand--that would be closed-minded, after all. I'm asking you to stop

Re: backticks

2004-04-17 Thread David Storrs
Folks, this discussion seems to be spinning. All the points, on both sides, have been made and are being repeated with only slight variation. We've all made our cases--why don't we drop the issue for a while and let Larry ruminate? I think we can all agree that he will give the idea a fair

Re: Apocalypse 12

2004-04-17 Thread Piers Cawley
chromatic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perl.com has just made A12 available: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/04/16/a12.html Warning -- 20 pages, the first of which is a table of contents. But it's all excellent good stuff. Well done Larry and Co. Now, if you could all just hold off with

Re: backticks

2004-04-17 Thread Juerd
Trey Harris skribis 2004-04-16 12:05 (-0700): I'm asking you to stop interpreting disagreement as censorship, prejudice, closed-mindedness, or whatever else. It's not. I never did interpret disagreement as anything but disagreement, and never said that I think everyone who disagrees is

Re: Apocalypse 12

2004-04-17 Thread David Storrs
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 05:30:01PM -0700, chromatic wrote: Perl.com has just made A12 available: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/04/16/a12.html Warning -- 20 pages, the first of which is a table of contents. Enjoy, -- c It's here, it's here, it's he!! *Ahem*

Re: Apocalypse 12

2004-04-17 Thread John Siracusa
On 4/17/04 6:22 AM, Piers Cawley wrote: chromatic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Warning -- 20 pages, the first of which is a table of contents. But it's all excellent good stuff. Well done Larry and Co. Now, if you could all just hold off with the questions 'til Monday you'll make a summary

A12 Q: Pointer-to-member-function behavior?

2004-04-17 Thread Austin Hastings
A12 The upshot of these rules is that a private method call is essentially a subroutine call with a method-like syntax. But the private method we're going to call can be determined at compile time, just like a subroutine. /A12 Is it permissible to use variable dispatch for private methods?

Re: Apocalypse 12

2004-04-17 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
chromatic wrote: Perl.com has just made A12 available: I started reading it last night, and ended up going to bed before I was finished. But I just wanted to say that this: With this dispatcher you can continue by saying next METHOD. is the sort of genius that makes me glad Larry's

Apo 12: Space in method calls

2004-04-17 Thread Abhijit A. Mahabal
I do not understand one of the examples in the Use of methods/the dot notation section: $obj.method ($x + $y) + $z From the earlier examples (like $obj.method +1), I got the impression that you look ahead until you find a term or an operator. In the example above, isn't ($x + $y) a full term,