Re: Pondering topicalizers and defaulting constructs

2002-02-25 Thread Allison Randal
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 10:07:12AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: It's been thought about, but neither accepted nor rejected yet. It's one of those things that depends on future decisions. Certainly Hugo and Dan will vouch for the fact that I was ruminating about similar issues last Wednesday,

Re: Pondering topicalizers and defaulting constructs

2002-02-25 Thread Allison Randal
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 12:35:29PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : What would the default-variable scheme do in this context? That's a problem. But a more basic problem is, what would a Cwhen do? My guess was that it would behave as if handed a list. So: for @foo -

Pondering topicalizers and defaulting constructs

2002-02-22 Thread Allison Randal
Of course, this idea may have already been considered and rejected, in which case I'm just curious to learn the reasons. What would be the cost (performance, design or dwim) of making all the defaulting constructs pay attention to the current topicalizer in preference to $_? Cwhen is

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