[Apologies for the delay in responding to this (and other) messages -- I
read some of these a couple of weeks ago but didn't want to reply till
I'd read the entire thread, then I was away a bit ...]
Larry Wall writes:
On the other hand, it's possible that we should extend the visual
metaphor
Larry Wall writes:
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 08:51:33PM -0500, Joe Gottman wrote:
: Great, so
: $x = foo(), bar();
: means the same thing as
: $x = ( foo(), bar() );
No, we haven't changed the relative precedence of assignment and
comma. I've been tempted to, but I always come
Austin Hastings writes:
With Larry's new vectorized sides suggestion, putting a guillemot on
the right side of the operator ...
Austin, we've been through this before -- kindly return that guillemot
to wherever you picked it up from. It's hassle enough having unicode in
Perl, without us all
Larry Wall writes:
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 07:03:26PM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote:
: Larry Wall writes:
:
: On the other hand, we've renamed all the other bitwise operators,
: so maybe we should rename these too:
:
: +bitwise left shift
: +bitwise
Damian Conway writes:
Larry mused:
... I don't think people would be terribly pleased when they see
things like:
@a raquo;+laquo; @b
[it] would certainly motivate people to move toward editors and
terminals that can display:
@a »+« @b
Yes, it would be an
