It's quite a disappointment in some ways, but we've lived with it in
Perl 5, and I'm sure we can live with it in Perl 6.
And I still think Perl 6 will have fewer cases in which it's completely
impossible for not-Perl to parse it. Unfortunately, fewer still implies
some, and some is still a
Rod Adams skribis 2004-11-29 1:56 (-0600):
Are they really common enough to merit a two char, absolutely no
whitespace after it lexical? Especially one that looks a lot like the
left bitshift operator, as well as an ASCII version of a Unicode quoting
and splitting character?
What if
Adam Kennedy wrote:
Frankly, as the only person who has managed to get together a guessing
lexer that is sufficiently accurate to be something other than useless,
Hm. I must confess that I don't consider Text::Balanced's
Cextract_codeblock subroutine to be entirely useless. And presumably
Matthew Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
James Mastros wrote:
Larry Wall wrote:
Well, yes, but sometimes the weights change over time, so it doesn't
hurt (much) to reevaluate occasionally. But in this case, I think I
still prefer to attach the exotic characters to the exotic behaviors,
and
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 05:29, Michele Dondi wrote:
OT
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, David Ross wrote:
I have been studying PERL 5 core and modules to identify options and
issues for meta-architectures and automated code generation. PERL 6
documents and discussion provide insight essential to
Jon Ericson writes:
Matthew Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
James Mastros wrote:
Larry Wall wrote:
Well, yes, but sometimes the weights change over time, so it doesn't
hurt (much) to reevaluate occasionally. But in this case, I think I
still prefer to attach the exotic characters to
Luke Palmer skribis 2004-11-29 16:10 (-0700):
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20040420175551.GA16162%40wall.orgrnum=1clarify
It says that backticks won't be used at all in Perl 6. That's (the) one
key of the keyboard that we're leaving to user-definition.
It says that, but after
Juerd writes:
Luke Palmer skribis 2004-11-29 16:10 (-0700):
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20040420175551.GA16162%40wall.orgrnum=1clarify
It says that backticks won't be used at all in Perl 6. That's (the) one
key of the keyboard that we're leaving to user-definition.
Juerd writes:
Luke Palmer skribis 2004-11-29 16:10 (-0700):
It says that backticks won't be used at all in Perl 6.
It says that, but after saying Leaving aside the use of C`` as a
term And that use of backticks is what this subthread appears to
be about. As I interpret it,
Matthew Walton wrote:
James Mastros wrote:
Larry Wall wrote:
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 07:32:58AM +0300, Alexey Trofimenko wrote:
: ah, I forget, how could I do qx'echo $VAR' in Perl6? something like
: qx:noparse 'echo $VAR' ?
I think we need two more adverbs that add the special features of qx
Alexey Trofimenko skribis 2004-11-30 3:17 (+0300):
but talking about oneliners and short shell-like scripts, where `` is
pretty useful.. hm.. things good for oneliners are rarely as good for
larger programs, and vice versa. Of course, Perl5 proves opposite, but
Perl6 tends to be a
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 11:36:14 +0100, James Mastros [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Larry Wall wrote:
Likewise a qw/a b/ is short for
q:w/a b/
qw:q/a b/
$fromvar = 'foo bar';
qw:qq/a something with spaces b $fromvar/
# ?? -- slightly OT, but is that a, 'something', with,
P.P.P.S. If answer on my why? would be just because! I would take it
silently.
yes, answer was as I predicted above. I promised..
..but:
As far as I understood, arrays and hashes, and references them are much
more similar in Perl6 than it was in Perl5.
F.e. we have @a and $a = [EMAIL
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-22 through 2004-11-29
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Rather than try to do something witty about the strange music I am
listening to, or the stuffed animals who are assisting me. I will start
this summary off with an entirely self-serving request. abuseA while
ago I saw the
Juerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
but talking about oneliners and short shell-like scripts, where `` is
pretty useful.. hm.. things good for oneliners are rarely as good for
larger programs, and vice versa. Of course, Perl5 proves opposite, but
Perl6 tends to be a little more verbose, and
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 09:33:49 -0800, Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 07:32:58AM +0300, Alexey Trofimenko wrote:
: I notice that in Perl6 thoose funny and could be much more common
: than other paired brackets. And some people likes how they look, but
: nobody likes
Alexey Trofimenko writes:
But we have no need in qx either. Why to introduce (or REintroduce)
something if we have something similar already?
$captured = system :capture q/cmd../;
Or even calling the function Crun, as per Larry's April mail that Luke
referenced.
I haven't that long
Juerd writes:
For oneliners, I think I'd appreciate using -o for that. The module
itself can be Perl::OneLiner. Things the module could do:
* disable the default strict
The C-e flag indicating the one-liner disables Cstrict anyway.
Smylers
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