Re: Rebinding can change type? [was: Static Values and Variable Bindings]

2001-11-07 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 03:41:27AM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote: > Some of you may remember (and some wish we could forget) a ramble I > posted about six months back about traffic lights and language design > and all the weird ways we get meaning out of such a small # of > symbols. One of the t

RE: flex perl mess

2001-11-07 Thread Garrett Goebel
Piers Cawley writes: : Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : > Of course, that's not to say that the particular C that's returned on : > failure-to-numerify mightn't have a property set that indicates the problem : > was not-a-numeric in nature. : : Having more than one 'undef' value sound

RE: flex perl mess

2001-11-07 Thread Garrett Goebel
Piers Cawley writes: : If currying magic works in subroutine parameter strings then you can : just do : : sub assert_with_func (&^sub is constant, $^expected is constant, : $^got, $message) : { : &^sub($expected, $got) or die $message || $default_message

Re: flex perl mess

2001-11-07 Thread Sam Vilain
Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Of course, that's not to say that the particular C that's returned on > failure-to-numerify mightn't have a property set that indicates the problem > was not-a-numeric in nature. Having more than one 'undef' value sounds like a recipe for internals mad