1. Perl6 should include a has and have keyword to set properties
more clearly:
my $var has Found;
as opposed to:
my $var is Found
Similarly:
my list have Found
I guess have sounds weird (all you base are belong to us ;) ) and may
not be necessary.
2. Perl6 definitely should include an
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Bill Atkins wrote:
1. Perl6 should include a has and have keyword to set properties
more clearly:
Already been over this. Answer was no for some reason.
my $var has Found;
See, then you need a direct object. IWhat is it that C$var has found? :)
(sortof) Seriously, we
At 11:03 AM -0600 7/7/02, Thom Boyer wrote:
And thanks for the pointers. I've been out of touch with the Perl
community the last couple of years. It's been exciting seeing how
Perl 6 is shaping up, but I'm having a hard time making up lost
time. The postings to perl6-language often take for
Ashley Winters asked:
It *might* possibly work to hyper the constructor:
my ($a, $b) = ^new Foo
Would prefix ^ always return 'wanted' number of repetitions? Like a
smart Cx Inf?
This does bother me about the above proposed syntax/semantics. Hyperoperations
take their magnitude
On Sunday 07 July 2002 02:19 pm, Damian Conway wrote:
Ashley Winters asked:
It *might* possibly work to hyper the constructor:
my ($a, $b) = ^new Foo
Would prefix ^ always return 'wanted' number of repetitions? Like a
smart Cx Inf?
This does bother me about the above
Ashley Winters wrote:
How about:
$_ = new Doberman for my Dog ($spot, $rover) is rw;
grin I don't think so.
In Perl 6 you'd just need:
$_ = new Doberman for $spot, $rover;
Or, if you really did want that strong type-checking:
for $spot, $rover - Dog $dog is rw { $dog =
DC == Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DC Ashley Winters wrote:
How about:
$_ = new Doberman for my Dog ($spot, $rover) is rw;
DC grin I don't think so.
DC In Perl 6 you'd just need:
DC $_ = new Doberman for $spot, $rover;
will perl6 still support the indirect
On Sunday 07 July 2002 03:05 pm, Damian Conway wrote:
Ashley Winters wrote:
How about:
$_ = new Doberman for my Dog ($spot, $rover) is rw;
grin I don't think so.
In Perl 6 you'd just need:
$_ = new Doberman for $spot, $rover;
Hmm, I thought the for topic was made ro at some
will perl6 still support the indirect object syntax? i thought it was
going away and that would be:
Doberman.new
That works too, but the indirect object syntax isn't going away.
TMTOWTDI, after all.
also is $_ an lvalue alias (topic) for $spot and $rover?
Yep. Only *named*
Ashley Winters wrote:
$_ = new Doberman for $spot, $rover;
Hmm, I thought the for topic was made ro at some point. Odd.
Not the standard $_ topic. Only named topics default to read-only.
However, I still expect to be able to use my() in a loop condition/iterator
and have it
On Sunday 07 July 2002 04:10 pm, Ashley Winters wrote:
given my Doberman $sis is female = .dog[0] but pregnant - $mother {
for my Doberman puppies = new Doberman x $mother.littersize
In hindsight, I probably meant
for my Doberman puppies = ^new Doberman x $mother.littersize
It's hard
On Sunday 07 July 2002 05:33 pm, Ashley Winters wrote:
my($foo, $bar) = for { $_ = new Stuff }
Err, the parser would die if I did that, never mind. Can I have each, perhaps?
*@foo = each { undef }
I shouldn't be programming on Sunday,
Ashley Winters
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