Re: Referring to source code within Perldoc: the new A<> code

2007-06-20 Thread Damian Conway
Mark Overmeer wrote: This is exactly the form of documentation you do *not* want the user to write, for various reasons: Well, I agree it is the form that "you" (singular, specific) do not want; but I'm not sure it's bad for "you" (plural, generic) to write in all cases. ;-) * The expli

Re: Perl6 new features

2007-06-20 Thread cdumont
You should discuss that on p5p, not here. Only Perl 6 is on topic here. Sure, but I've started from perl doc 5.8 in order to say that it could be nice to have the features I'm talking about in perl6 so it's not out of the scope I guess. it seems to me that you already have this : in line of

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14421 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-06-20 Thread brian d foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chaddaï Fouché <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The "Learning Perl 6" argument seems > equally contrived to me since anyway you don't need POD to understand > programming in Perl and I never actually learned POD until I wanted to > do a real module and document my littl

Re: assign-if-uninitialized [Was: Generalizing ?? !!]

2007-06-20 Thread Charles Bailey
On 6/19/07, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:50:35AM -0400, Charles Bailey wrote: : Yep. For that matter, if I had to pick one change in this area that'd : have maximum impact, I'd say a good assign-if-uninitialized idiom : would be way ahead of an if-then-else id

Re: Perl6 new features

2007-06-20 Thread Moritz Lenz
A: because it disrupts the natural way of thinking. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? cdumont wrote: > Perl 6 is not yet finished, so the the list of core modules is not yet > specified. > > > I know that it is somehow not the subject, > but I think the actual 5.8 doc should be changed to some

Re: Perl6 new features

2007-06-20 Thread Chaddaï Fouché
2007/6/20, cdumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I know that it is somehow not the subject, but I think the actual 5.8 doc should be changed to some extents. snip AND so that it could be a lot richer, allow people to "comment"... Well you can't comment it (CPAN Annotate allow you to comment the doc of

Re: Perl6 new features

2007-06-20 Thread cdumont
Thank you for your kind reply ! Perl 6 is not yet finished, so the the list of core modules is not yet specified. I know that it is somehow not the subject, but I think the actual 5.8 doc should be changed to some extents. It could be nice if we could browse each core functions, having the func

Re: Perl6 new features

2007-06-20 Thread Moritz Lenz
cdumont wrote: > I know that perl doesn't only focus on web apps and my question might > seem irrelevant > but I've been searching the web in order to find the new features of > perl6 regarding > new functions, core module lists (not perl grammar itself) but couldn't > find any thing... Perl 6

Re: Query regarding Java/perl interface

2007-06-20 Thread Tim Bunce
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 12:53:32PM +0800, Agent Zhang wrote: > On 6/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi I am sameer and am new to this group. It would realy help if any > >body can let me know is there a book or reference guiode where in i > >can get help regarding the perl/ja

Re: Referring to source code within Perldoc: the new A<> code

2007-06-20 Thread Mark Overmeer
* Damian Conway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070620 05:17]: > Feedback and suggestions are most welcome. Clear and usable, in the boundaries you set to yourself. Just my thoughts. A lot of questions and speculation, you do not need to answer all. I'll try to only comment on this design, and not restart