Multiple implementations of Perl 6

2005-12-24 Thread Andrew Savige
Apologies if I'm Mr Magoo, but I did a bit of a search on this just now, and uncovered little more than a pithy quote from Piers Cawley in: http://dev.perl.org/perl6/list-summaries/2005/p6summary.2005-07-05.html asserting that Multiple implementations are good, m'kay. If anyone can point me to

Re: Multiple implementations of Perl 6

2005-12-24 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On 12/24/05, Andrew Savige [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious to know if the Perl 6 design team fully endorse a change from the Perl 5 the (single) implementation *is* the specification model to a multiple implementations are good, m'kay, but from a single (detailed and precise)

RE: binding arguments

2005-12-24 Thread Joe Gottman
-Original Message- From: Juerd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 7:26 PM To: perl6-language@perl.org Subject: binding arguments Merry Christmas to you all! We use = for pairs, but also for something very different: named argument binding. Yes, pairs

Re: Multiple implementations of Perl 6

2005-12-24 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 11:25:43PM +1100, Andrew Savige wrote: : Apologies if I'm Mr Magoo, but I did a bit of a search on this just now, and : uncovered little more than a pithy quote from Piers Cawley in: : : http://dev.perl.org/perl6/list-summaries/2005/p6summary.2005-07-05.html : : asserting

Re: binding arguments

2005-12-24 Thread Luke Palmer
On 12/25/05, Juerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: foo( named_arg := $value, other_arg := $value, ); I'll point out that Joe's argument is completely moot, because you're not using $s on the named arguments. As a matter of fact, we could double up the := symbol as both