Re: Aliasing an array slice

2003-07-08 Thread Austin Hastings
--- Jonadab the Unsightly One <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Jonadab the Unsightly One" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Does this imply, though, that it's pointing to specific elements, > > Wow, I wasn't paying attention to what I was thinking there. > Obviously it points to specific elements,

Re: Aliasing an array slice

2003-07-08 Thread Jonadab the Unsightly One
"Jonadab the Unsightly One" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does this imply, though, that it's pointing to specific elements, Wow, I wasn't paying attention to what I was thinking there. Obviously it points to specific elements, because the subscripts used to create a slice don't have to be sequen

Re: Aliasing an array slice

2003-07-08 Thread Jonadab the Unsightly One
David Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > my $r_slice = [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > @$r_slice = qw/ a b c d e /; > print @a; # 0 a b c d e 4 5 This seems right to me. It would take approximately no time to get used to this semantic, IMO. > # Note that it does NOT modify in r

This Week's Summary

2003-07-08 Thread Piers Cawley
Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030706 Welcome to this week's Perl 6 Summary, coming to you live from a gatecrashed Speakers' lounge at OSCON/TPC, surrounded by all the cool people like Dan Sugalski, Lisa Wolfisch, Graham Barr and Geoff Young, who aren't distracting me from wri