Re: wanthash (Was: Re: date interface (was Re: perl6 requirements, on bootstrap))

2000-08-04 Thread Piers Cawley
Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > It was Damian's, no? >> >> I bet he has a paper on it. > > http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/Perl/want.proposal Ooh, I like that. I'm already frustrated with the current lvalue setup, this would be a big improvement. Actually, I'd

Re: wanthash (Was: Re: date interface (was Re: perl6 requirements, on bootstrap))

2000-08-03 Thread Damian Conway
> > It was Damian's, no? > > I bet he has a paper on it. http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/Perl/want.proposal :-) Damian

Re: wanthash (Was: Re: date interface (was Re: perl6 requirements, on bootstrap))

2000-08-03 Thread Damian Conway
> >This reminds me -- once there was a proposal to extend the wantarray > >functionality on p5p. Anyone remember? Anyone want to turn it into an > >RFC? > > It was Damian's, no? I certainly claim it and intend to RFC it. I already have improvements to the previous proposal in min

Re: wanthash

2000-08-03 Thread Graham Barr
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 09:41:07AM -0700, Peter Scott wrote: > The last iteration of the Conway (nee Phoenix) proposal is at > http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/Perl/want.proposal unless he's taken > it elsewhere. It is (predictably) far more comprehensive than anything > anyone else has c

Re: wanthash

2000-08-03 Thread Peter Scott
At 11:00 AM 8/3/00 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: >At 03:03 PM 8/3/00 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: >>On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:53:02AM +0100, Hildo Biersma wrote: >> > If functions could distinguish between >> > 'wantarray' and 'wanthash' this would be

Re: wanthash

2000-08-03 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 03:03 PM 8/3/00 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: >On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:53:02AM +0100, Hildo Biersma wrote: > > If functions could distinguish between > > 'wantarray' and 'wanthash' this would be easy to do. > >This reminds me -- once there was a propos

Re: wanthash (Was: Re: date interface (was Re: perl6 requirements, on bootstrap))

2000-08-03 Thread Johan Vromans
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 07:04:05AM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote: > >This reminds me -- once there was a proposal to extend the wantarray > >functionality on p5p. Anyone remember? Anyone want to turn it into an > >RFC? > > It was Damian's, no? I bet he has a paper on it. -- Johan

Re: wanthash (Was: Re: date interface (was Re: perl6 requirements, on bootstrap))

2000-08-03 Thread Tom Christiansen
>This reminds me -- once there was a proposal to extend the wantarray >functionality on p5p. Anyone remember? Anyone want to turn it into an >RFC? It was Damian's, no? --tom

wanthash (Was: Re: date interface (was Re: perl6 requirements, on bootstrap))

2000-08-03 Thread Johan Vromans
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:53:02AM +0100, Hildo Biersma wrote: > If functions could distinguish between > 'wantarray' and 'wanthash' this would be easy to do. This reminds me -- once there was a proposal to extend the wantarray functionality on p5p. Anyone remember? A