On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 08:59:53 -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
So in this particular case it might be better to just say
if exists get_javascript_class {...}
Eeep... That reminds me of how you check between versions of perl.
I think I want something else:
$?RUNTIME
this is a common
With the recent realization of the beginnings of a PIL-Javascript
emitter, it appears that my Perl6 program can run in a bizarre mix of
execution environments.
Forgive me if I missed this while trying to skim through the unearthly
number of perl6 messages so far, but...
It'd be nice if there
Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
This is similar to the OS-9's gestalt tables, which got smarter as
the operating system had more features, but was a consistent way to
ask do we have a color monitor here?.
Is something like this already planned?
From my bubble in the Perl6 Universe this thing is an
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 07:09:41AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
: With the recent realization of the beginnings of a PIL-Javascript
: emitter, it appears that my Perl6 program can run in a bizarre mix of
: execution environments.
:
: Forgive me if I missed this while trying to skim through
LW == Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
LW Yes, but we just need to be careful not to recreate The Registry.
LW We're looking more for a place for everything and everything in
LW its place, but we're still trying to understand what that means.
LW As you say, whatever we end up with
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 04:27:15PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
: then why not name it something like *?ENV (not to be confused with the
: shell/exec env which is still %ENV i assume)?
Of course, the fact that you have to say not to be confused with
can be taken as indicating that people will in
LW == Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
LW On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 04:27:15PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
LW : then why not name it something like *?ENV (not to be confused with the
LW : shell/exec env which is still %ENV i assume)?
LW Of course, the fact that you have to say not to be
On Jul 27, 2005, at 6:18 PM, Uri Guttman wrote:
this thingy should encompass
all about this perl and the world it is in and the shell env is
part of
that.
How about *?PERL ?
if ( *?PERL.COMPILED_OS eq 'Unix') {...}
if ( *?PERL.CURRENT_OS eq 'Unix') {...}
*?PERL.Grammars{Regex} =
