Re: Continuations

2002-11-18 Thread Iain 'Spoon' Truskett
* Damian Conway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [19 Nov 2002 15:19]: Luke Palmer asked: What was the final syntax for vector ops? @a ???+??? @b @a ???+??? @b The latter (this week, at least ;-). Y'know, for those of us who still haven't set up Unicode, they look remarkably similar =)

Re: String concatentation operator

2002-11-17 Thread Iain 'Spoon' Truskett
* Dan Sugalski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [18 Nov 2002 12:56]: [...] Perl's standard threading behaviour's going to be rather heavyweight, though. Silly question time: Why is it going to be rather heavyweight? (Not complaining or berating, just wanting information =) ) (Though the presentation on

Re: [RFC] Perl6 Operator List, Take 5

2002-10-31 Thread Iain 'Spoon' Truskett
* Dyck, David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [31 Oct 2002 19:21]: [...] You could use the Character Map accessory to put the character into the clipboard, or press the alt and hold the alt key while typing 0171 (or 0187) alt+0171 alt+0187 To be honest, as easy as it is to type ^a^v or ^k,[1] it's

Re: plaintive whine about 'for' syntax

2002-10-31 Thread Iain 'Spoon' Truskett
* Ed Peschko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [01 Nov 2002 07:19]: [...] for @a - $a_variable1 is rw, $a_variable2 is rw; @b - $b_variable is rw; @c - $c_variable is rw; @d - $d_variable is rw; @e - $e_variable1 is rw, $e_variable2 is rw; { } is much, *much* clearer. IMO

Re: [RFC] Perl6 Operator List, Take 5

2002-10-31 Thread Iain 'Spoon' Truskett
* Larry Wall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [31 Oct 2002 08:22]: [...] This is currently running in a window that does Latin-1 rather than UTF-8. Do these French quotes come through? @a «+» @b The window may say Latin-1, but the mail header said UTF-8. As it happens, I couldn't see them until I

Re: [RFC] Perl6 Operator List, Take 5

2002-10-31 Thread Iain 'Spoon' Truskett
* Larry Wall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [01 Nov 2002 15:59]: [...] I was misconfigured here. My pine was marking it as UTF-8 even though the window was Latin-1. So you ought to be able to see this: @a «*» @b. That appeared perfectly. I'm definitely going to look into mutt though...gotta have

Re: Private contracts?

2002-10-12 Thread Iain Spoon Truskett
* Larry Wall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [12 Oct 2002 10:51]: [...] use Acme::1.0; After all, we don't have package names starting with numbers right now... Well, there's than Pod::Simple::31337, which confused search.cpan.org for a bit. But none which _start_ with a number, no. cheers, --