Thomas A. Boyer writes:
Michael Lazzaro wrote:
*Now*, what to do about the fantastic magic that pointy-sub provides?
The _spectacular_ win would be if we could just recognize an optional
parameter list as part of a block.
map @a : ($a,$b) {...} # params + closure = closure
On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 11:42 AM, Kwindla Hultman Kramer
wrote:
Michael Lazzaro writes:
And it provides a very visual way to define any pipe-like algorithm,
in
either direction:
$in - lex - parse - codify - optimize - $out; # L2R
$out - optimize - codify - parse - lex
On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 07:40 PM, Thomas A. Boyer wrote:
I have a strong suspicion that this possibility was carefully
considered by {LW, DC, ...} (that's set notation, not a code block :)
before the Apocalypse 4 pointy sub syntax (and the for-loop syntax
using it) was
Michael Lazzaro:
# Here's something that I'm still confused about.
#
# We have:
#
# print STDOUT : $a;
Presumably you forgot the $ on that STDOUT.
# as indirect object syntax. The colon means STDOUT is the
# object we're
# operating on. It works everywhere. We also have
#
# for
Michael Lazzaro writes:
Think, think. What do these things have in common?
# known from A4
for @a, sub ($x) {...} # primitive spelling
for @a - $x {...} # pointy sub, looks great
map {...} @a # old-style map syntax
map sub
At 11:02 AM -0800 1/23/03, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
Yes, no doubt so, and good point. I think I should make it clear
that my speculation on somehow unifying Cfor and Cmap is _not_
an attempt to gut A4, because I like A4 quite a lot. I'm just
thinking out loud about how we could _extend_ A4 in
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Except that none of the other ones exist in Perl 6. :^)
Thinking about this some more, and considering the desirability of lazy
evaluation, I think incremental execution might be the right way.
(Also, at
In my quest to eliminate as many explicit conditionals from my code as
possible, I found myself wondering if Perl 6's multidispatch mechanism
would allow one to write:
sub gmttime ( $time = time() ) is in_scalar_context {
strftime( $perls_default_time_format, $time );
}
sub
At 7:30 AM + 1/24/03, Piers Cawley wrote:
In my quest to eliminate as many explicit conditionals from my code as
possible, I found myself wondering if Perl 6's multidispatch mechanism
would allow one to write:
sub gmttime ( $time = time() ) is in_scalar_context {
strftime(
