Re: placeholder vs. lexical variables

2006-04-11 Thread Audrey Tang
Dan Kogai wrote: > I found this when I was playing w/ pugs. > > pugs> { $^x }.(42) > 42 > pugs> { my $z; $^x }.(42) > *** Undeclared variable: "$^x" > at line 1, column 10-14 > > So far as I see s06, there's nothing wrong w/ the statement above. I > just want to make sure this is not a perl

placeholder vs. lexical variables

2006-04-11 Thread Dan Kogai
Folks, I found this when I was playing w/ pugs. pugs> { $^x }.(42) 42 pugs> { my $z; $^x }.(42) *** Undeclared variable: "$^x" at line 1, column 10-14 So far as I see s06, there's nothing wrong w/ the statement above. I just want to make sure this is not a perl6 feature. I found this

Re: foo..bar or long dot and the range operator

2006-04-11 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 12:41:30PM +0200, TSa wrote: : I'm unsure what the outcome of the recent long dot discussions is : as far as the range operator is concerned. .. is always the range operator. The "dot wedge" just has a discontinuity in it there. I can't think of any wedgey applications th

foo..bar or long dot and the range operator

2006-04-11 Thread TSa
HaloO, I'm unsure what the outcome of the recent long dot discussions is as far as the range operator is concerned. Since the whole point of the long dot is to support alignment styles the following cases shouldn't mean different things: foobar #0 single call to foobar (OK, that is diffe

Re: int context ?

2006-04-11 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 03:49:45AM +0200, herbert breunung wrote: : hello perlisticers : : (my first post) : i read in the perl6 book second edition something called : : /Integer context/ and /Numeric context/ : : Ican understand the difference but since nowhere in the synopses i read : a word

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r8645 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-11 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Mon Apr 10 21:39:58 2006 New Revision: 8645 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: Outlawed 42. (but inlawed .42) Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod