[OT] Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14501 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-02-05 Thread Paul Hodges
--- Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Besides $^_ is just uglier than anything else I've seen today... lol -- I thought of it as a rather cute peeking-wink with a cauliflower ear, but that's probably much more cutesiness than we want to encourage in our language design. ===

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14501 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-02-05 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 11:57:37AM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote: : Larry Wall wrote: : > : Is it forbidden to use placeholder parameters in conjunction with : > : "my"? Or would it simply not do anything useful? I ask because "Do : > : what I mean" would seem to imply that 'my Dog $^foo' would spec

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14501 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-02-05 Thread Jonathan Lang
Larry Wall wrote: > : Is it forbidden to use placeholder parameters in conjunction with > : "my"? Or would it simply not do anything useful? I ask because "Do > : what I mean" would seem to imply that 'my Dog $^foo' would specify > : $^foo's type as 'Dog'. Though if you start doing too much of t

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14501 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-02-05 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:42:35AM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote: : > +++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.podTue Feb 5 09:55:29 2008 : > @@ -2791,7 +2791,7 @@ : > are insufficient for defining the "pecking order" of code. Note that : > you can bind to either a bare block or a pointy block. Bindi

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14501 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-02-05 Thread Jonathan Lang
> +++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.podTue Feb 5 09:55:29 2008 > @@ -2791,7 +2791,7 @@ > are insufficient for defining the "pecking order" of code. Note that > you can bind to either a bare block or a pointy block. Binding to a > bare block conveniently leaves the topic in C<$_>, so the fi

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14501 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-02-05 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Tue Feb 5 09:55:29 2008 New Revision: 14501 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: Added named placeholders using $:foo twigil; idea from cognominal++: Placeholder subs can now also autoadd [EMAIL PROTECT