Re: >>OP<< [was: Re: Properties] [OT]

2003-12-02 Thread Paul Hodges
> And as far as I know, << and >> are exactly equivalent to æ?? and æ?? > in all cases. lol I get the idea, but I foresee these unicode bits as becoming an occasional sharp spot in my metaphorical seat of consciousness. :) I am not seeing unicode. __ Do you Y

Re: >>OP<< [was: Re: Properties]

2003-12-02 Thread Paul Hodges
--- Michael Lazzaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday, December 1, 2003, at 01:05 PM, Hodges, Paul wrote: > > Didn't know "is" would do that. Good to know! > > And in my meager defense, I did reference MikeL's operator > > synopsis as of 3/25/03, which said ^[op] might be a synonym > > for

Re: >>OP<< [was: Re: Properties]

2003-12-02 Thread Michael Lazzaro
On Tuesday, December 2, 2003, at 12:37 PM, Luke Palmer wrote: Michael Lazzaro writes: There were also vaguely threatening proposals to have <> and >>op<< do slightly different things. I assume that is also dead, and that <> is (typically) a syntax error. Ack. No, slightly different things would

Re: >>OP<< [was: Re: Properties]

2003-12-02 Thread Luke Palmer
Luke Palmer writes: > And as far as I know, << and >> are exactly equivalent to æ and æ in all > cases. By which I mean  and Â, of course. :-/ (mutt is kind of a pain in this area) Luke Ã

Re: >>OP<< [was: Re: Properties]

2003-12-02 Thread Luke Palmer
Michael Lazzaro writes: > > On Monday, December 1, 2003, at 01:05 PM, Hodges, Paul wrote: > >Didn't know "is" would do that. Good to know! > >And in my meager defense, I did reference MikeL's operator synopsis as > >of > >3/25/03, which said ^[op] might be a synonym for <<>> or >><< (Sorry, > >n

>>OP<< [was: Re: Properties]

2003-12-02 Thread Michael Lazzaro
On Monday, December 1, 2003, at 01:05 PM, Hodges, Paul wrote: Didn't know "is" would do that. Good to know! And in my meager defense, I did reference MikeL's operator synopsis as of 3/25/03, which said ^[op] might be a synonym for <<>> or >><< (Sorry, no fancy chars here. :) Hey, that was *March*

This week's summary

2003-12-02 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 20031130 Welcome back to the weekly Perl 6 Summary, which I'm hoping to keep on a weekly cycle for the foreseeable future. It's been a relatively low volume week this week, I'm assuming that Thanksgiving had something to do with it (I hope tho

Re: 'Core' Language Philosophy

2003-12-02 Thread Piers Cawley
Michael Lazzaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday, November 26, 2003, at 12:29 PM, Larry Wall wrote: >> If you contrast it with an explicit try block, sure, it looks >> better. But >> that's not what I compare it with. I compare it with Perl 5's: >> >> $opus.write_to_file($file) or

RE: Properties

2003-12-02 Thread Hodges, Paul
> From: Luke Palmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hodges, Paul writes: > > > > sub setvals ($o, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) { > > $o but= $_; > > $o.$_ = true; > > } > > Y'all seem to be missing a C somewhere :-) > > sub setvals ($o, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) { > $o bu