On 5/29/07, Larry Wall wrote:
Note that any is considered a singular noun in English,
I started to say, Except when it means 'all', but when used that
way, it still would mean all in the singular sense. But it gives
me an excuse to point out that any can be ambiguous in English;
it's not
Author: larry
Date: Thu May 31 16:53:58 2007
New Revision: 14410
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod
Log:
bogus ; termination noticed by pmichaud++
Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod
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At 5:36 PM -0600 5/31/07, David Green wrote:
On 5/29/07, Larry Wall wrote:
In any case, the Huffman coding is probably right because you want
to declare Any parameters more often than you want to talk about any
possible kind of Object, I suspect.
Are Objects really Everything? What about
I decided to bring out this Hash-Dict topic in a different thread
from the thread on Synopsis r14407 about Object-Universal since I
consider them separate though tangential matters that should be
argued on their individual merits.
In the interest of that Perl data types are better off being
Dictionaries are usually alphabetically ordered. Hashes are not.
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On 5/31/07, Darren Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Barring some better name, I highly recommend/propose renaming Hash to Dict.
And lets rename Perl to Python. This is just change for the sake of change.
snip
The term Dict (as a short form of dictionary) is well understood by
general people
big snip
I thought one of the things that Larry didn't want to do when moving
towards the next big version of Perl was to change the nature of the
language such that it wasn't Perl any more.
I feel that renaming a Hash to Dict would be one of those changes.
Personally, I don't find it
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 05:10:57PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote:
: I decided to bring out this Hash-Dict topic in a different thread
: from the thread on Synopsis r14407 about Object-Universal since I
: consider them separate though tangential matters that should be
: argued on their individual
Author: larry
Date: Thu May 31 22:43:55 2007
New Revision: 14411
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod
Log:
There is no longer any run-time dwimmery in indirect dispatch.
Now use $obj.$foo exclusively for symbolic method indirection
$obj.$var and [EMAIL PROTECTED] forms now allow *only* hard
At 9:17 PM -0700 5/31/07, Larry Wall wrote:
Nope. Hash is mostly about meaning, and very little about implementation.
snip
And as I said before, part of the reason for using Object is political,
snip
Okay, thanks for addressing these 2 naming concerns I talked about;
I'll drop the
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