Larry Wall wrote :
Paragraph mode is not going away--it's merely going elsewhere. :-)
: If so, what's the rationale? Another case of you can't do it right
: internationally, so better not to do it at all?
No, it's simply that using a global variable to control something
that should be
I keep expecting Damian or Larry or someone to step in with The True
Grammar and make this obsolete -- does such a thing exist?
Changes in this version:
- A bit more speed (though nowhere near enough). It comes from a
combination of improving rule ordering, inlining some rules, moving
most
In a message dated Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Sean O'Rourke writes:
- Implicit currying variables ($^a etc) are in. I thought I had read
somewhere they were gone in favor of closure args, but people seem
to be using them, and they're not hard to put in.
My understanding is that they still exist as
Peter Scott wrote:
At 01:54 PM 7/3/02 -0600, Thom Boyer wrote:
I'm personally MUCH more interested in Python's generators
http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0255.html.
A generator is like an iterator in that it can produce
a series of values. But unlike iterators, when you ask
a generator
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Trey Harris wrote:
: In a message dated Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Sean O'Rourke writes:
: - Implicit currying variables ($^a etc) are in. I thought I had read
:somewhere they were gone in favor of closure args, but people seem
:to be using them, and they're not hard to put
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Thom Boyer wrote:
: Has there been any indication whether those suggestions have met
: with Larry's approval?
There will certainly be support for that sort of thing in Parrot,
up to and including continuations. Otherwise we cannot hope to
host all these other languages.
