Re: My presentation on last weekend

2005-06-02 Thread Matt Creenan
On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 13:11:34 -0400, BÁRTHÁZI András [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just would like to share it with you. We had a weekend at the lake Balaton on the last weekend, where I had a talk about Perl 6. The guys liked it (the girls had sunbath during the event :), and one of them

Re: Perl development server

2005-05-23 Thread Matt Creenan
On Mon, 23 May 2005 14:58:20 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about zephyr. No! That's the name of a project I'm working on dang it ;)

Re: available operator characters

2005-05-07 Thread Matt Creenan
On Sat, 07 May 2005 01:47:08 -0400, Matt Creenan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So here's some random ideas that probably make no sense ($ can be optional.. don't know) *snip* That brings me to another idea. Is $_ as an array used? @_? This relates back to the discussion on topics. Could be use

Re: available operator characters

2005-05-06 Thread Matt Creenan
On Sat, 07 May 2005 01:12:02 -0400, Mark A. Biggar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually if we define |...| at all, I'd prefer it mean abs(), its usual mathmatical meaning. I agree. I think || is just confusing. I thought about $blockname = { ... }, but = is obviously taken, as is == So here's

Re: -X's auto-(un)quoting?

2005-04-23 Thread Matt Creenan
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:55:17 -0400, Mark A. Biggar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After some further thought (and a phone talk with Larry), I now think that all of these counted-level solutions (even my proposal of _2.foo(), etc.) are a bad idea. They have a similar problems to constructs like next 5;

Re: -X's auto-(un)quoting?

2005-04-23 Thread Matt Creenan
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 14:21:06 -0400, Juerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Creenan skribis 2005-04-23 14:19 (-0400): Hm.. didn't really think of that. Though, how often would that really happen? Often -- this is exactly the same problem as Python has with its significant indenting. Move code around

Re: Closure/block/sub multiplier /// Win32 module for Perl6

2005-04-20 Thread Matt Creenan
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 13:00:01 -0400, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Is anyone working on making a Win32 module for Perl6 yet, or porting over the p5 one? If not, I may be willing to make one, along with some help from friends. If I do, does anyone have any pointers or suggestions for me

Re: Return with no expression

2004-08-23 Thread Matt Creenan
I've always thought that particular bit of sugar was rather dangerous. I'd even prefer a longhand: $foo either 0 or split(); to the troublesome double-usage of C:: I think I'd prefer that as well, since it has the advantage of not having to use the evil shift key. Though i don't think it

Re: Return with no expression

2004-08-23 Thread Matt Creenan
I think I'd prefer that as well, since it has the advantage of not having to use the evil shift key. Though i don't think it stands out as much as it should. I hate to reply to my own message, but... How about $foo??split()!!0; for a touch of craziness. Or is !! not usable? Actually, just

RE: Operators that keep going and going...

2004-03-14 Thread Matt Creenan
It just goes to show.. the perl community has already thought of everything.. -Original Message- From: Luke Palmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 12:41 PM To: Carissa Cc: Perl Language Subject: Re: Operators that keep going and going... Carissa writes: The