Re: Language Discussion Summaries

2003-02-05 Thread Smylers
Miko O'Sullivan wrote: The idea of discussion summaries has been well received, ... I read this thread over the past couple of days. It's only today that, having thought about it, an objection occurred to me. I've no problem with people summarizing threads, but with this bit: The summaries

Re: newline as statement terminator

2003-02-05 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 01:57:00AM +0100, Stéphane Payrard wrote: In the tradition of Perl concision, I would like newline to be a statement terminator everywhere it can: that is when a) the parser expects an operator _and_ b) we are not in the middle of a parenthesised expression.

Re: newline as statement terminator

2003-02-05 Thread Allison Randal
Nicholas Clark wrote: There's nothing wrong with stealing, er borrowing the good bits of reptiles though, is there?. I didn't think that perl was fussy about where it gets its inspiration from. It isn't and never will be. We're openly friendly to all languages. But Perl is also quite

Re: Language Discussion Summaries

2003-02-05 Thread Piers Cawley
Smylers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Miko O'Sullivan wrote: The idea of discussion summaries has been well received, ... I read this thread over the past couple of days. It's only today that, having thought about it, an objection occurred to me. I've no problem with people summarizing