Re: receivers of pipes (the sharp end again)

2005-05-08 Thread Brad Bowman
I guess the real question is whether == my $x is really assigning a list or binding an iterator to a Lazy slot somewhere. It feels like the latter is more useful. Which means that == @x can return as soon as it binds the iterator to @x.specs. It doesn't have to wait for all the values to

Re: Overriding/redefining p6 built-in functions

2005-05-08 Thread Larry Wall
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 02:39:03PM +1000, Andrew Savige wrote: : A crude hack sometimes used by gung ho p5 testers is to redefine : perl built-in functions. For example: : : BEGIN { : *CORE::GLOBAL::read = sub (*\$$;$) { return undef }; : } : : to test read failures (and so boost your

Re: Overriding/redefining p6 built-in functions

2005-05-08 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 07:20:04AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: Absolutely everything is overridable in Perl 6, except the fact that the program is parsed as Standard Perl up till the first declaration (which might, of course, occur before the program file in a switch.) On that note,

Parrot 0.2.0 NLnet Released!

2005-05-08 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Parrot 0.2.0 NLnet Released! On behalf of the Parrot team I'm proud to announce the release of Parrot 0.2.0 and I'd like to thank all involved pepole as well as our sponsors for supporting us. It's a pleasure and honor for me to be able to advertise (after 0.1.0) the next leap release 0.2.0 with