On Monday 07 November 2005 09:26 am, Rob Kinyon wrote:
On 11/7/05, Michele Dondi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Rob Kinyon wrote:
So, for a bit of extra complexity, I get peace of mind for myself and
my users.
The point being, and I'm stressing it once again but no more
On Monday 07 November 2005 03:51 pm, Juerd wrote:
Andrew Rodland skribis 2005-11-07 13:30 (-0500):
If you want to get into personal beliefs, I think that function
signatures are such a complexity quagmire -- and that they're line-noise
ugly to boot.
The nice thing about signatures
On Monday 22 August 2005 04:25 pm, Larry Wall wrote:
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 04:09:29AM +0800, Yiyi Hu wrote:
[stuff]
: Even if making scalar lazy might cause problem sometimes, Is it
: possible to add a property which is like
: my $var is lazy; to handle these situation?
In Perl 6 you make
On Thursday 19 May 2005 10:51 pm, Sam Vilain wrote:
Edward Cherlin wrote:
Here is the last answer from Ken Iverson, who invented reduce in
the 1950s, and died recently.
file:///usr/share/j504/system/extras/help/dictionary/intro28.htm
[snip]
Thanks for bringing in a little history to
On Tuesday 12 April 2005 07:42 am, David Cantrell wrote:
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 03:42:25PM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote:
I'm not even sure I like the *possibility* of using non-ascii letters
in identifiers, even.
I think we already have Latin-1 in identifiers...
more's the pity.
On Monday 04 April 2005 06:34 pm, Juerd wrote:
Terrence Brannon skribis 2005-04-04 18:45 (+):
So, to avoid confusion with the common understanding of flattening in
Perl, perhaps it should be called spreading or distributing.
I agree.
Likewise, slurping is probably best explained as
On Monday 28 March 2005 05:48 pm, Craig DeForest wrote:
The problem with using the units(1) database is that it only deals with
multiplicative relations -- so, e.g., it won't handle temperature.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ units
2084 units, 71 prefixes, 32 nonlinear units
Among those nonlinear units
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 07:18 pm, Thomas A. Boyer wrote:
Larry Wall wrote:
Somebody needs to talk me out of using A..Z for the simple cases.
Larry
[ for array dimension placeholder ]
That might confuse users of languages that were not
C-syntax-influenced, who think that '**' means
On Wednesday 14 July 2004 12:58 pm, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
Andrew Rodland wrote:
So if we have @x = [1, 3, 5, 6 .. 9, 10 .. Inf, 42];
...
42 is just one number, so questions of indexing
it are moot, but its distance from the left is Inf. So, there's no way
to access the 42
]; # 10
$a = $x[-1];#42
$a = $x[Inf]; # No thanks
$a = $x[-2];# Inf
$a = pop @x;# $a = 42; @x = [ 6 .. 9, 10 .. Inf ]
repeat { $a = pop @x; } until $a != Inf; # Heat death
--Andrew Rodland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tuesday 11 May 2004 08:00 pm, Pedro Larroy wrote:
Hi
Is there any chance that in perl6 there will be the possibility to write
if/else statements without {}s with the condition at the beginning?
Like
if (condition)
statement;
In order not to break traditional C culture. Is there
On Tuesday 11 May 2004 10:13 pm, Larry Wall wrote:
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 08:31:55PM -0400, Andrew Rodland wrote:
: On Tuesday 11 May 2004 08:00 pm, Pedro Larroy wrote:
: Hi
:
: Is there any chance that in perl6 there will be the possibility to
: write if/else statements without {}s
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 09:52 pm, Rick Delaney wrote:
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 01:54:10PM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 12:38 PM, Smylers wrote:
That would make the rule very simple indeed:
Assigning Cundef to an array element causes that
On Thursday 30 January 2003 06:49 pm, Andrew Rodland wrote:
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 09:52 pm, Rick Delaney wrote:
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 01:54:10PM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 12:38 PM, Smylers wrote:
I'd also like to point out that ruby has
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 07:16 am, Simon Wistow wrote:
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 12:14:29PM +0100, K Stol said:
LUA seems to be a very nice language, but how is this language to be
used? Is it in combination with a C program one would write? Or
On Friday 10 January 2003 11:42 am, Paul Johnson wrote:
Damian Conway said:
Andy Wardley wrote:
The arrow is a special case. I don't read that first character
as '-', I think of the operator as one. I guess the visual cue forces
me to see it like that.
I'm suggesting that ~ and ~
On Thursday 09 January 2003 01:01 pm, Thom Boyer wrote:
If you read ~ and ~ as stuff this thingy into that doohicky, assignment
makes perfect sense. They are plumbing connectors: sometimes they connect
the water softener to the water heater (one device to another), and
sometimes they connect
On Monday 14 October 2002 20:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are Inf and NaN going to be standard in Perl 6? As long as we're traveling
down that road, how about i (the square root of -1), or Lukasiwiscean Null?
(Sorry if I sound sarcastic, I'm actually honestly curious.)
After much fighting
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 16:33:31 -0600 (MDT), Luke Palmer said:
You know, the idea that square brackets are the only things that can
make lists is starting to really appeal to me. Similar for squiggles
and hashes. I don't know how many times in my early Perl5 days I did
this:
Since we now
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