Re: PERL6STORM - tchrist's brainstorm list for perl6

2000-09-28 Thread Adam Krolnik
I think the octal number representation should not be accepted... Adam Krolnik Verification Mgr. LSI Logic Corp. Plano TX. 75074

Re: PERL6STORM - tchrist's brainstorm list for perl6

2000-09-26 Thread Nicola Meade
Yes, while still allowing an explicit A()-B(), of course. I just meant that A-B means A::-B(), or, if you would, "A"-B(). But A()-B would not change in meaning. --tom, posting blind(ly) Visit our website at http://www.ubswarburg.com This message contains confidential information and is

Re: PERL6STORM - tchrist's brainstorm list for perl6

2000-09-23 Thread Bart Lateur
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 04:20:37 -0400 (EDT), Philip Newton wrote: On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Tom Christiansen wrote: =item perl6storm #0035 Make A-B place A in string context, like = does. That way no A()-B naughtiness. While still allowing explicit A()-B? Of course. You can still have

RE: PERL6STORM - tchrist's brainstorm list for perl6

2000-09-22 Thread Greg Boug
=item perl6storm #0064 Do something about microsoft's CRLF abomination. I think for the case of Microsoft C++ used for the Win32 port, everyone would be happy if Perl's sysopen, sysread, etc. did not require binmode. Unfortunately, Microsoft made the decision very early on in its C/C++

RE: PERL6STORM - tchrist's brainstorm list for perl6

2000-09-22 Thread Paris Sinclair
while (FH) { s/^M$//; # Process $_ } Cute psuedocode. I don't like CRLF at all, it makes me feel like I'm dealing with a typewritter. But, giving multiple values to $/ seems more painful to me that to just tr/\r//d; on any suspected M$

RE: PERL6STORM - tchrist's brainstorm list for perl6

2000-09-22 Thread Dave Storrs
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Greg Boug wrote: =item perl6storm #0064 Do something about microsoft's CRLF abomination. Perhaps somehow allowing $/ to take multiple input delimeters (perhaps in a fashion similar to egrep)... How about: [snip] $/ = "seperator1|seperator2"; [snip]

PERL6STORM - tchrist's brainstorm list for perl6

2000-09-21 Thread Tom Christiansen
=head1 NAME perl6storm - tchrist's brainstorm list for perl6 =head1 DESCRIPTION I'm going away for a long, long time, way past the RFC deadline. Here is my file of notions I've brainstormed over the last few weeks. Some have been covered in other RFCs. Many haven't. Most could use some

Re: PERL6STORM - tchrist's brainstorm list for perl6

2000-09-21 Thread Tom Christiansen
=item perl6storm #0106 Safe "signals"! (not syssigs,really)

RE: PERL6STORM - tchrist's brainstorm list for perl6

2000-09-21 Thread Fisher Mark
=item perl6storm #0064 Do something about microsoft's CRLF abomination. I think for the case of Microsoft C++ used for the Win32 port, everyone would be happy if Perl's sysopen, sysread, etc. did not require binmode. Unfortunately, Microsoft made the decision very early on in its C/C++

Re: PERL6STORM - tchrist's brainstorm list for perl6

2000-09-21 Thread Charles Lane
Tom Christiansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: =item perl6storm #0016 object as scope/namespace? see python. it's danged clean there in that you can now implement safe trivially. don't have to keep inventing crazy overloads. Yes, this would be great! =item perl6storm #0025 Make -T the default

Re: async I/O (was Re: PERL6STORM - tchrist's brainstorm list for perl6)

2000-09-21 Thread Uri Guttman
"DS" == Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DS At 05:35 PM 9/21/00 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: i proposed some of that in my rfc47 (universal async i/o). at the perl level you need a delivery interface as with events. DS I'm not really worried about the perl level for this. I'm more