On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 10:28:26PM +, Luke Palmer wrote:
: You know, before I read this part of the message, I was thinking
: precisely that. Nullary splat should do it, so that @foo[*] will
: work. Unary splat would of course get our favor if it can be
: interpreted that way, but in cases
Currently in Pugs *zip has no signature -- it simply rewrites its
arguments into the listfix (i.e. Y) function.
That is bad because it can't be introspected, and you can't define
something like that yourself. It also makes it uncompilable to Parrot
as I don't control the runloop there. :)
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 05:40:31PM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote:
: Currently in Pugs *zip has no signature -- it simply rewrites its
: arguments into the listfix (i.e. Y) function.
:
: That is bad because it can't be introspected, and you can't define
: something like that yourself. It also makes
[Sent off-group by mistake. On #perl6 the impression was that now Pipe
is becoming a Role for things that can lazily be read from; and thus any
filehandle or lazy list fulfills them. Larry, please help us understand
if this is the case.]
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 08:53:41AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
Larry Wall writes:
This does imply that we can pipe into a subscript somehow.
Why? Or rather, why is that desirable?
If we choose something like () for our placeholder meaning pipe into
this location, then
@[EMAIL PROTECTED]; @b; @c]
is the same as
@foo[()] == @a == @b ==
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 07:24:42PM +0300, Gaal Yahas wrote:
: [Sent off-group by mistake. On #perl6 the impression was that now Pipe
: is becoming a Role for things that can lazily be read from; and thus any
: filehandle or lazy list fulfills them. Larry, please help us understand
: if this is the
Larry Wall wrote:
You must
specify @foo[[;[EMAIL PROTECTED] or @foo[()] == @bar to get the special mark.
I'm uncomfortable with the specific syntax of @a[()] because generated
code might sometimes want to generate an empty list, and special-casing
that sort of thing is always a pain (and
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:05:22PM -0700, Dave Whipp wrote:
: Larry Wall wrote:
: You must
: specify @foo[[;[EMAIL PROTECTED] or @foo[()] == @bar to get the special
mark.
:
: I'm uncomfortable with the specific syntax of @a[()] because generated
: code might sometimes want to generate an
On 6/16/05, Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or maybe a splat
@foo[*]
Or go with the parens with something in them to indicate the positive
absence of something.
@foo[(*)]
Anyone else want to have a go at this bikeshed?
You know, before I read this part of the message, I
