Re: Support for ensuring invariants from one loop iteration to the next?

2008-12-06 Thread John Macdonald
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 04:40:32PM +0100, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-12-03 21:45]: loop { doSomething(); next if someCondition(); doSomethingElse(); } I specifically said that I was aware of this solution and that I am dissatisfied

Re: Support for ensuring invariants from one loop iteration to the next?

2008-12-06 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* David Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-12-05 15:45]: I tried to break down the reasons for wanting to write such loops different ways: 1) Simple code […] 2) Clear code […] 3) Self-documenting code […] Yes, exactly right. What we need is something a bit like the continue block, except

Re: how to write literals of some Perl 6 types?

2008-12-06 Thread Dave Whipp
Carl Mäsak wrote: Paul (): I can't find anything in the existing synopses about Blobs. Probably looking in the wrong place, sorry. http://perlcabal.org/syn/S02.html#line_912 Re-reading that, a slightly tangent (though still on topic, I hope) thought come to mind. The definition of the