On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 10:07:21 -0400, Thomas A. Lowery wrote: >On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 09:58:13AM -0400, Matthew O. Persico wrote: >>On 13 Apr 2002 11:56:33 -0700, Jeff Zucker wrote: >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>> >>>>if Larry had wanted Perl to be able to distinguish numbers from >>>>numberlike >>>>strings he would have given us a way before B. >>> >>>I think that needs to be ammended to: �"If Larry had wanted us not >>>to be >>>able to distinguish numbers from numberlike strings, he wouldn't >>>have >>>invented Randal." >>> >> >>Um, that's very cute, but it seems very "internal" to me. What are >>the >>odds that this is going to work in Perl 6? I'm not so sure I'd >>depend >>upon it. > >Matthew, are you implying that Perl 6 is un-inventing Randal? ;-> > Not intentionally, of course, but yeah, I guess so.
It could happen... :-) -- Matthew O. Persico
