Re: This week's summary

2004-07-27 Thread Michele Dondi
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: > The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > > The infinite thread > > Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at > > least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack > > surreal numbers into Perl 6.1 t

Re: String interpolation

2004-07-27 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:44:09PM +0200, Michele Dondi wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Larry Wall wrote: > > > This particular modeful behavior is easily handled by most current > > editors. You have to be able to treat the insides of strings different > > from the outsides. That being said, ther

Re: Why do users need FileHandles?

2004-07-27 Thread Michele Dondi
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: > Hmm...maybe this could be done for Perl 5... I guess it could be relatively easily done by means of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] feature present in recent perls... Michele -- > A mathematically-inclined glove-fetishist [...] What a wonderful intr

Re: String interpolation

2004-07-27 Thread Michele Dondi
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Larry Wall wrote: > This particular modeful behavior is easily handled by most current > editors. You have to be able to treat the insides of strings different > from the outsides. That being said, there are plenty of other things > in Perl 6 already that will drive editors

Re: String interpolation

2004-07-27 Thread Michele Dondi
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote: > > As a related side note, is it possible to use multi-char delimiters in > > Perl6? I mean, a la: > > > > qq<<...>>; > > I would worry that you'd be getting "<" and ">" at the beginning and > end of your string. IMO, there are enough cha