Re: This week's summary

2003-07-01 Thread Alan Burlison
to me. Some compilers may choose to reorder even without optimization turned on. I'd say that it is a bug in Parrot if it requires optimization to be off for this code - how many different compilers have you tried? -- Alan Burlison --

Re: perl 6 requirements

2000-08-02 Thread Alan Burlison
"returned the array". So then in fact it is impossible to return an array - yes? You can either return a single scalar or a list. The closest you can come to returning an array as an entity is to return a reference to it - \@a. Have I got that straight? -- Alan Burlison

Re: perl 6 requirements

2000-08-01 Thread Alan Burlison
other language allows such poetry as "@{$hash}{@keys} = @values"? I humbly submit that perl without the perlisms is not perl. -- Alan Burlison CARP - CAmpaign for Real Perl

Re: Removing/fixing $[line noise here] variables

2000-08-01 Thread Alan Burlison
quite like this. I'd like it even more if they were package scoped and/or localisable. My choice of warning level in my package shouldn't affect your choice in your package. -- Alan Burlison

Re: type-checking [Was: What is Perl?]

2000-08-01 Thread Alan Burlison
access will have to check an 'are you typed' flag. -- Alan Burlison