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2001-07-23 Thread Casey West
I just met this camel at the San Diego Zoo. His name is Santana. He is IIRC 3 months old. My proposal: Perl 6 should be code named Santana http://geeknest.com/~cwest/tpc/pictures/four/dscn0039.jpg Since we're all sitting here at this meeting, I figure it's on topic. :-) Casey West --

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-23 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 02:47 PM 7/21/2001 -0700, Dave Storrs wrote: >Second topic: > >The debugger API PDD that I submitted a couple of days ago suggested that >we incorporate a profiler into the core. What do people think of this >idea? A simple version will probably be included--I expect to hack one together for

RE: aliasing a value in a while each loop

2001-07-23 Thread Sterin, Ilya
alias(%foo, %bar) is better IMO since it conforms to other functions in perl. my %foo is alias = %bar; #seems a little out of scope of the language, unless more functionality is implemented in that way. Ilya -Original Message- From: Davíð Helgason To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; John Porter Sent

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-23 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 10:56:41AM -0700, Dave Storrs wrote: > A good point. There should definitely be a clean API so that > other people can develop their own profilers which could then be plugged > in. This still leaves the question though...should core provide a default > profiler? Wh

Sv: aliasing a value in a while each loop

2001-07-23 Thread Davíð Helgason
John Porter wrote: > Perhaps a simple > > alias( %foo, %bar ); > > for those times when you really just need a simple WTDI! Would alias %foo = %bar; not be ok, 'alias' acting and binding like 'my' of course. Or my %foo is alias = %bar; No? /davíð

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-23 Thread Dave Storrs
On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Johan Vromans wrote: > Dave Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I discovered today that I had forgotten to put 'use strict' at the top of > > one of my modules...it was in the script that _used_ the module, but not > > in the module itself. Putting it in instantly ca

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-23 Thread Uri Guttman
> "DS" == Dave Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DS> A good point. There should definitely be a clean API so that DS> other people can develop their own profilers which could then be DS> plugged in. This still leaves the question though...should core DS> provide a default profile

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-23 Thread Dave Storrs
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:47:43PM -0700, Dave Storrs wrote: > > > It would be nice if there was a > > > > use strict 'recursive'; > > > > option that you could set in a script or module (package, whatever) which > > would force all the mod

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-23 Thread Dave Storrs
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Dan Brian wrote: > > The debugger API PDD that I submitted a couple of days ago suggested that > > we incorporate a profiler into the core. What do people think of this > > idea? > > I think that with a clean API, many third-party profilers could and would > be created. I