On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 09:10:49PM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
>if ( want->{count} > 2 ) { return $one, $two }
>
> Will that be interpreted as:
>
>'want'->{count}
>want()->{count}
>
> To be consistent, it should mean the first one. That is, the infix
> operator -> should always autoq
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 08:05:50PM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> > $_ is not ALLCAPS. @EXPORT_OK should die (see RFC 233). @ISA is on
> > its way to its grave already, see C.
>
> Yeah, but you're still just sidestepping my point. Your position seems
> poised on the hope that no more special vari
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 06:39:49PM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> > The presence of a method STORE is visible outside of the module, and
> > may be &required* if the module follows some published (non-Perl) API.
> > Variables are of different ilk.
>
> I think you're overlooking they can both be equ
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 04:52:12PM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> Ok, you should clarify this. You're not suggesting that indirect object
> syntax be removed. You're suggesting that it should not accept
> barewords. These are two separate things.
Agreed. I realized the ambiguity only after I poste
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 04:50:04PM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> >
> > On the other hand, there are only 5 names, not hundreds of them, and
> > they do not "get in the way", as ADD would do (prohibiting a method
> > named ADD). So l
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 04:26:47PM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> > $IO::STDERR->print @stuff;
> > print $IO::STDERR @stuff;
>
> Ok, something here is extreme confused. Is not the second form an
> instance of indirect object syntax?
It is not with a bareword at the second place, so is not caus
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 04:22:31PM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> > What ALLCAPS variables?
>
> Well, @ARGV comes to mind.
I see, and @INC, %INC, %ENV, %SIG.
> Maybe we should provide a special namespace for these as well,
> besides main::?
This is a nice possible solution. There may be many ot
==
Please show me how to write:
print STDERR @stuff;
without it, while keeping it a method of the STDERR filehandle, and
without requiring ->.
==
Why not use ->?
==
> No special UPPERCASE_NAME subroutines
Whoa! What about ALLCAPS variables? Should we axe all of them as well?
They're the exact same idea.
==
What ALLCAPS variables
a) I do not subscribe to Perl6 lists, so please consider including me
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b)
==
* From: Nathan Wiger
> There are several proposals to switch the meaning of C
basing on
> the whether $arg is an array reference
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 03:11:47PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> Perl6 RFC Librarian writes:
> > This RFC proposes two-stage autoloading: one stage may be registered
> > to act when the symbol is encountered at compile time, the other
> > when the subroutine is called. Autoloading on the seco
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 11:12:28AM +0200, Johan Vromans wrote:
> Of course, we need group names (trivial), and group temporaries.
> I needed the latter to define a generic pattern to match quoted strings:
> you need to store the starting quote somewhere to find the ending quote,
> but I didn't wan
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 10:16:12AM +0200, Johan Vromans wrote:
> > "(" (.) group(1, [[ 'a' .. 'z' ]] (*) [3,5] ) (.) ")"
> >
> > here (.) is the ASCII substitution for the UNICODE "REx concatenate"
> > char, similarly for [[. ]] and (*). (The chars may be borrowed from
> > the math repertoire.
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