-- On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 07:13:40 Damian Conway wrote:
>Yes. That superpositions are going to be so widely used once people >catch on, that users going to curse us every time they have to >write C<use ops ':superpositions';> at the start of every scope. So, I open my inbox and see that it has been stuffed with Perl 6 language. It's like a little gift. :-) But then I see this debate over the use of superpositions. If there are those who are still disbelieving then go look at the prior art. Icon is a fine little programming language (though a little too "pretty" for my tastes) that uses very similar syntax to what were talking about here. The big difference is that Icon supports loads of (very nice and clean) backtracking. | and & are Icon's || and &&, but Icon's backtracking gives us a really cool idiom. Superpositions offer us the same thing in Perl 6. Take a look at Icon over at http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/ . Once I saw it I did a Piers: "This is something I want in Perl and I want it right now!" > >;-) > >Damian > > > ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus
