Re: This week's summary

2002-11-27 Thread Joe Gottman
There's something wrong with your links to the messages in the documentation list. Whenever I click on one, I get the message "Unable to find thread. Please recheck the URL." Joe Gottman

Anti-globalization (was Re: This week's summary)

2002-11-27 Thread Me
> Dynamic scoping (take 2) > ... a system of implicit argument passing ... > Larry pointed out [an error about threads] The system of implicit argument passing was intended to eliminate the need to use globals. I was wrong about threads but that doesn't change my view that globals are mostly evil

Re: hyper/vector operation operator

2002-11-27 Thread Luke Palmer
> From: "Ph. Marek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:10:19 +0100 > > So an usage could be > @a = @b =>+ @b; > @a = @b =+> @b; > @a = @b +=> @b; > where the 2nd form would be the most intuitive (from reading this source). > Hmm, that would leave us with > @a

Re: Just wondering...

2002-11-27 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 09:57:41AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > So anyway, to actually answer your question, hopefully within the next > week or two, depending primarily on whether over the coming holiday > my wife's family decides to play games I like or games I don't like. So ... what are the emai

Re: Just wondering...

2002-11-27 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:33:23PM +, Piers Cawley wrote: : It's coming up on six months since the last Apocalypse, and 3 months : since the Perl 6 Mini conference. Do we have any indication as to when : we can expect the next one? It'd be a lot faster if you guys would stop asking interesting

Just wondering...

2002-11-27 Thread Piers Cawley
It's coming up on six months since the last Apocalypse, and 3 months since the Perl 6 Mini conference. Do we have any indication as to when we can expect the next one? -- Piers "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewr

This week's summary

2002-11-27 Thread Piers Cawley
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20021124 And some rough beast, its hour come 'round at last slouches toward... And then the scansion goes to pot and I can't make a joke fit. Shame. Anyhoo, it's time for another episode of the continuing saga of Perl 6 development. When I sa

hyper/vector operation operator

2002-11-27 Thread Ph. Marek
Hello everyone! First of all - I do not closely follow perl6/parrot development. I read "this week on perl6" on www.perl.com but that's it - so if I'm completly off the track, let me know. Regarding the discussions about the hyper operator (eg adding elements of 2 arrays into another array)

Re: Status Summary; next steps

2002-11-27 Thread Piers Cawley
"Bryan C. Warnock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Be kind to Piers. Ah... Yes do. I need all the kindness I can get. -- Piers "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite." -- Jane Austen?