Re: Perl 6 fears

2005-10-25 Thread H.Merijn Brand
current fear is that I won't live long enough to be able to use and understand the full richness of what perl6 is going to offer me. (Oh, and that perl6 will never be able to upgrade my scripts that use 'format', but I'm aware of the plan to make that `obsolete' as i

Re: enhanced open-funktion

2004-07-15 Thread H.Merijn Brand
les named 'r', or 'w' 2. They don't have to be translated (in german that would be 'l' and 's') 3. They play nice with possible extensions 'open ">:utf8", $file; > not that MHO is particularly > important, I guess, but just to stress

Re: Periodic Table of the Operators

2004-06-08 Thread H.Merijn Brand
support for multiple character sets). There is a scroll- back history buffer for each virtual terminal and a copy- and-paste mechanism that allows moving text regions between windows. When screen is called, it creates a single window with a

Re: RFC 111 (v1) Whitespace and Here Docs

2000-08-26 Thread H.Merijn Brand
Reply on laptop in wilderness (no network) holydays me void this message by other messages sent in my absence. Ignore if so. On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 08:28:50 -0400 (EDT), Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Michael Fowler wrote: > > > So what's insufficient about: > > >

Re: RFC 45 (v1) || should propagate result context to bo

2000-08-26 Thread H.Merijn Brand
ates C<@b> twice. > > There is obviously no need to modify the behavior of the C<&&> operator. Will this have enough DWIM? > =head1 REFERENCES > > L What about Damian's want (RFC 21) -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://www.amsterdam

Re: Perl6 Prject Plan / Roadmap

2000-08-05 Thread H.Merijn Brand
find this in the timeline's -- H.Merijn Brand using perl5.005.03 on HP-UX 10.20, HP-UX 11.00, AIX 4.2, AIX 4.3, DEC OSF/1 4.0 and WinNT 4.0 SP-6a, often with Tk800.020 and/or DBD-Unify ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/H/HM/HMBRAND/ Member of Amsterdam Perl Mon