Re: Cya dudes

2000-10-01 Thread Jean-Louis Leroy
and intelligence. On a different, yet related issue: had there been a perl6-sociology list, I would have submitted the following: All newbies are not necessarily 'clueless newbies' There. -- Jean-Louis Leroy http://users.skynet.be/jll

Re: Against overloading || and (RFC 20) -- we just need lazy evaluation

2000-08-11 Thread Jean-Louis Leroy
refix notation"); but the calculation of the values of the parameters can be postponed until the time when the sub is already running. In fact, it won't be calculated, unless you invoke it yourself. (How? "eval"?) How is that against RFC 20? I described such a mechanism there...

Re: Against overloading || and (RFC 20) -- we just need lazy evaluation

2000-08-11 Thread Jean-Louis Leroy
to support short-circuiting for user-defined logical junctions. -- Jean-Louis Leroy http://users.skynet.be/jll

Re: Safer OO inheritance

2000-08-07 Thread Jean-Louis Leroy
There were discussions about this a couple of years ago on p5p. For example: package Foo; sub new { bless { "${CURRENT_PACKAGE}name" = 'Simpson' ... } ...where $CURRENT_PACKAGE is a special variable automatically set to...guess what? ;-) -- Jean-Louis Leroy http://users.skynet.be/jll