Re: Everything is an object.

2002-12-19 Thread David Storrs
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 09:54:12AM +, Simon Cozens wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Storrs) writes: Just so I'm clear, are you saying that you think L2R is a bad idea, and should not be supported? Or just that it has not yet been demonstrated that this is a good idea? I think

Re: Everything is an object.

2002-12-19 Thread David Storrs
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 09:49:42AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 5:45 PM -0800 12/16/02, Dave Storrs wrote: Just so I'm clear, are you saying that you think L2R is a bad idea, and should not be supported? Or just that it has not yet been demonstrated that this is a good idea? I think it's

Re: Everything is an object.

2002-12-19 Thread David Storrs
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 09:54:52AM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote: Umm... I think some of these recent messages have had typos between L2R and R2L. (?) In that people seem to have been arguing against themselves. (??) I'll try using -- and --. Just to make sure I'm not one of those people,

Re: Everything is an object.

2002-12-19 Thread David Storrs
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 02:51:04PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 9:54 AM -0800 12/17/02, Michael Lazzaro wrote: We _must_ (for some value of must that is real close to being a 100% drop-dead requirement) support -- (L2R), in the form of @a.grep( {...} ) .map( {...} )

Re: Everything is an object.

2002-12-19 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 08:03:14AM -0800, David Storrs wrote: On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 02:51:04PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 9:54 AM -0800 12/17/02, Michael Lazzaro wrote: We _must_ (for some value of must that is real close to being a 100% drop-dead requirement) support -- (L2R), in the

Re: Everything is an object.

2002-12-19 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Scott Duff) writes: I was under the impression that the distinction between array and list was going away in perl 6. @a is an array; *@a is a list. -- In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. -- Thomas Jefferson

RE: Everything is an object.

2002-12-19 Thread Brent Dax
David Storrs: # I don't care about the syntax at all, I just made up # something that seemed moderately clear to me. In point of # fact, I hope we DON'T use the above syntax, or anything else # where you are required to have an operator between each # element of the pipeline. How else would

Re: Everything is an object.

2002-12-19 Thread Michael Lazzaro
On Thursday, December 19, 2002, at 07:55 AM, David Storrs wrote: On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 09:54:52AM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote: We _must_ (for some value of must that is real close to being a 100% drop-dead requirement) support -- (L2R), in the form of @a.grep( {...} ) .map( {...}

Re: Everything is an object.

2002-12-19 Thread Michael Lazzaro
On Thursday, December 19, 2002, at 08:35 AM, Brent Dax wrote: Eww. Indir object is like this: @out = sort map grep @a: {grepblock} {mapblock}; #I'm not sure you can actually leave out the # parens--it might be ambiguous. I actually thought the indirect object syntax would be... umm...

RE: Everything is an object.

2002-12-19 Thread Brent Dax
Michael Lazzaro: # On Thursday, December 19, 2002, at 08:35 AM, Brent Dax wrote: # Eww. Indir object is like this: # # @out = sort map grep @a: {grepblock} {mapblock}; # #I'm not sure you can actually leave out the # # parens--it might be ambiguous. # # I actually thought the

L2R/R2L syntax (was Re: Everything is an object.)

2002-12-19 Thread Michael Lazzaro
On Thursday, December 19, 2002, at 08:35 AM, Brent Dax wrote: # @a.grep( {...} ) # .map( {...} ) # .sort; If we put in my idea of longest possible signature when there's no parens and a low-precedence 'dot' operator, we could do this without the parens. *ducks* :-) I

[ANNOUNCE] Parrot v0.0.9

2002-12-19 Thread Steve Fink
The Parrot team is proud to announce the release of Parrot version 0.0.9, code named Nazgul. It is downloadable from http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SF/SFINK/parrot-0.0.9.tar.gz. If you would like to check the latest copy out from CVS, see the instructions at http://dev.perl.org/cvs/. Try it out