On Tue, 26 Sep 2000 11:13:30 -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
-{rwx}; # negation of a hashref
That's a weird hashref. Odd number of arguments, anyone?
If rwx is supposed to be a sub, we could say that this is an exception,
just like $hash{bareword} is an exception. So, if you want the sub,
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Nathan Wiger wrote:
John Porter wrote:
Yeah, not to mention the fact that many modules, notably CGI.pm,
are arranged to allow to use unquoted strings of the form -name:
print textfield( -name = 'description' );
Well, this one's not an issue, because =
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:53:13AM -, Nate Wiger wrote:
Currently, file tests cannot be grouped, resulting in very long
expressions when one wants to check to make sure some thing is a
readable, writeable, executable directory:
if ( -d $file -r $file -w $file -x $file ) { ... }
On 26 Sep 2000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
=head1 TITLE
Allow grouping of -X file tests and add Cfiletest builtin
Nice summary. Thanks.
=head1 IMPLEMENTATION
This would involve making C-[a-zA-Z]+ a special token in all contexts,
serving as a shortcut for the Cfiletest builtin.
John L. Allen wrote:
I can't believe that special-casing the token -[rwxoRWXOezsfdlpSbctugkTBMAC]+
is an acceptble solution. I mean think of all the existing perl keywords
that that already matches: -pos, -cos, -lc, -uc, -fork, -use, -pop, -exp,
-oct, -log, -ord + others!. A lot of
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=head1 TITLE
Allow grouping of -X file tests and add Cfiletest builtin
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Nathan Wiger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 25 Sep 2000
Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Number:
320
Status:
