Re: Array Questions

2003-01-14 Thread Piers Cawley
Michael Lazzaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 03:24 AM, Damian Conway wrote: Michael Lazzaro asked: class FileBasedHash is Hash { ...stuff... }; my %data is FileBasedHash('/tmp/foo.txt'); Yes. my $path = '/tmp/foo.txt'; my %data is

Re: Array Questions

2003-01-14 Thread Piers Cawley
Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael Lazzaro wrote: Which, in turn, implies that the lines: my Foo $a; # (1) my $a is Foo; # (2) my Foo $a is Foo; # (3) are all subtly different. (2) and (3) (auto)instantiate a Foo, but (1) does not. Correct. Though the

Re: Disappearing code

2003-01-14 Thread Piers Cawley
Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Siracusa asked: Has there been any discussion of how to create code in Perl 6 that's there under some conditions, but not there under others? I'm thinking of the spiritual equivalent of #ifdef, only Perlish. In Perl 5, there were many attempts

Re: Array Questions

2003-01-14 Thread Michael Lazzaro
On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 02:24 AM, Piers Cawley wrote: Michael Lazzaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Great -- then I have only one more question, I think. In the words of a certain cartoon character, what's *this* button do? my $b is $a; Compile time error. 'is' is a compile time

Re: Array Questions

2003-01-14 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 9:23 AM -0800 1/14/03, Michael Lazzaro wrote: On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 02:24 AM, Piers Cawley wrote: Michael Lazzaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Great -- then I have only one more question, I think. In the words of a certain cartoon character, what's *this* button do? my $b is

Re: This week's Perl Summary

2003-01-14 Thread Mr. Nobody
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: L2R/R2L syntax Argh! No! It's back and this time it means business. The dreaded left-right versus right-left thing came back, and this time it was Damian applying the electrodes to the corpse. Of course, it being Damian he was instantly forgiven

Re: This week's Perl Summary

2003-01-14 Thread Buddha Buck
Mr. Nobody wrote: If you and Damian think you'll get me to leave p6l this easily, forget it. I've seen far worse flames than that. While you were the person that Damian lost his sense of humor at, Piers didn't identify you in this part of the summary. So I don't think Piers was trying to

Re: This week's Perl Summary

2003-01-14 Thread Piers Cawley
Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mr. Nobody wrote: If you and Damian think you'll get me to leave p6l this easily, forget it. I've seen far worse flames than that. While you were the person that Damian lost his sense of humor at, Piers didn't identify you in this part of the summary.

This week's Perl Summary

2003-01-14 Thread p6summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030112 ... and we're back. Yup, it's summary time again. We'll dive straight in with perl6-internals (as if you expected anything else). More thoughts on DOD Leopold Tötsch posted a test program showing the effects of PMC size and timing