Re: Files, Directories, Resources, Operating Systems

2008-12-07 Thread Mark Overmeer
* Aristotle Pagaltzis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [081204 16:57]: * Mark Overmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-12-04 16:50]: * Aristotle Pagaltzis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [081204 14:38]: Furthermore, from the point of view of the OS, even treating file names as opaque binary blobs is actually fine!

Re: Files, Directories, Resources, Operating Systems

2008-12-07 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Mark Overmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-12-07 14:20]: - you have XML-files with meta-data on files which are being distributed. (I have a lot of those) Use URI encoding unless you like a world of pain. You are looking at it from the wrong point of view: Perl is used as a glue

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

2008-12-07 Thread Moritz Lenz
Dave Whipp wrote: 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

Re: [perl #61126] return should apply to the lexically enclosing routine, map is no exception

2008-12-07 Thread Carl Mäsak
Daniel, in rakudobug ticket [perl #61126] (): The following two snippets of code are supposed to behave the same: sub bar($code) { $code() }; sub foo { bar { return 1 }; return 2; }; say foo; and sub foo { map { return 1 }, 1; return 2 }; say foo; both are supposed to return 1. For