Aaron Sherman wrote:
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 16:23, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
Arrays (or hashes) don't grow on reading - never.
But for less pure forms of reading:
foo(@a[0]);
auto-vivification will have to happen in some cases. e.g. if foo
requires a lvalue parameter.
A lvalue param is
On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 10:44 PM, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
Michael Lazzaro wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Shouldn't access to 'is computed' arrays be read-only?
In general, I would hope that 90% of them would be, but it's been
stated that it won't be a requirement.
If you want
From: Piers Cawley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Garrett Goebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
$idx_of_foo = $queue['foo']; # named lookup
$nth_foo= $queue[600]; # ordered lookup
One is SvPOK the other SvIOK...
Can't we handle both and still have the ordered lookup be fast?
[...]
YOU
On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 09:40 AM, Garrett Goebel wrote:
Or for the extremely thick:
GOOD: Separate syntax for indexed vs. named lookups
BAD: Same syntax with = 2 contextual meanings
Seriously, everyone read Damian's Seven Deadly Sins thing, if ya
haven't read/heard it already.
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 05:59:46PM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
A lvalue param is not strictly reading, but here has to happen something
differently - yes:
IMHO some sort of proxy could be passed here, saying: if you write to
me, this will be at @a[0]. Or auto-vivify the entry.
This is
Michael Lazzaro wrote:
On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 09:40 AM, Garrett Goebel wrote:
out-of-place-rant
I'm disappointed that The Perl Foundation (TPF) has been so
quiet and unresponsive on support for our core language
designers and architects. I dropped a note to all the TPF
--- Michael Lazzaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, is it obvious that I'm a little discouraged lately? Don't
suppose anyone can come up with some numbingly inspirational
words to cheer us (well, me) up...
Go us.
Dave Mitchell wrote:
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 05:59:46PM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
IMHO some sort of proxy could be passed here, saying: if you write to
me, this will be at @a[0]. Or auto-vivify the entry.
This is what Perl 5 does at the moment:
$ perl5.8.0 -MDevel::Peek -e 'sub
