use only The::Finest = 1.23;

2003-02-19 Thread Brian Ingerson
I've just released a module called 'only.pm' that allows people to install multiple versions of various modules. It also lets them 'use' specific versions. It was suggested to me that this might contribute insight towards module versioning in Perl6. Have fun. Here is the doc: NAME only

Re: Arrays, lists, referencing

2003-02-19 Thread David Storrs
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:51:12AM +1100, Deborah Ariel Pickett wrote: That said, I don't know of anything that the C comma operator can do that you couldn't equivalently do with a Perl5 Cdo statement: foo() or (do { warn(blah); next; }); # Yes, it's ugly. Or just a Boolean: foo()

Re: Arrays, lists, referencing

2003-02-19 Thread Stephen McCamant
DP == Deborah Ariel Pickett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DP One thing that the C comma operator promises is that its left DP operand (and all side effects) is completely evaluated before work DP starts on the right operand. (This may not be strictly true in DP the Perl interpretation of the

Re: Arrays, lists, referencing

2003-02-19 Thread Smylers
Dave Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:06:29PM -, Smylers wrote: More practically, the length of a list is never interesting: a list by definition must be hardcoded into the program so its length is known at compile time. Err, no. Eg in perl 5: $value = (1,2,

Re: Arrays, lists, referencing

2003-02-19 Thread Luke Palmer
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:51:12AM +1100, Deborah Ariel Pickett wrote: That said, I don't know of anything that the C comma operator can do that you couldn't equivalently do with a Perl5 Cdo statement: foo() or (do { warn(blah); next; }); # Yes, it's ugly. Well, gee, it's not that ugly: