Aaron Sherman wrote:
On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 06:38, Smylers wrote:
... lists now use square brackets.
I don't disagree that this is a good thing, but let's look at some
cases that might not look the way you had intended: Snip
Oh, I hadn't really intending anything. Starting from what
Luke Palmer wrote:
On 21 Sep 2002, Smylers wrote:
But because C$num _might_ be used as an array ref, the data has to
be kept around, which is wasteful.
The programmer should know whether it would or wouldn't,
Oh, I wasn't doubting that. I was just concerned that if the 'typical'
way
Paul Johnson wrote:
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 10:05:50AM -, Smylers wrote:
Many Perl programs use C$_ to mean
'the current line'. 'A2' gives the Perl 6 syntax for this as:
while $STDIN {
Maybe somewhere in the middle of
it, it's necessary to have a Cfor loop iterating
Recently I presented a Perl 6 overview talk at a Java conference. The
audience was mostly mute, which is unfortunate as I wanted to hear some
feedback or at least some groans of pain, but there was one Lisp programmer
in the front row that asked some interesting questions.
One was Perl 6
