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will apply to any method? To any sub? Can I call a sub 17 times by
saying
(undef) x 17 = foo(1,2,3);
That should be
(undef) x 17 = ^foo(1,2,3);
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match 'a word'?. (Having to escape #s is not as bad, as they are
less common).
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not sure that
would be a good idea, either). And we already have 3, kinda, by
passing a hash of arguments.
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free.
Like I said earlier, I think the important thing is to make people
think about it, not to continually frustrate them. I'd be inclined to
let people choose their own level of pain by setting DbC strictness
thresholds.
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So how come `print' gets to mung about with evaluation order?
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we'd definitely want
((undef)x((@list+1)/2), $median) = sort {...} @list;
to apply Perl's patented MindReader(tm) technology and run a median
algorithm. Wait, that last one's probably a bit too far-fetched...
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r the main page of www.perl.org to get dumped to stdout.
Well, this seems innocent enough, but how far do you want to stretch it?
use ICBM;
unlink 'http://www.macrosoft.com/'; # You get the idea
Just as well we had the flames about what to call Cunlink, no?
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ften worse),
since Memoize was designed with other things in mind. But it's
probably a "good enough" solution, and has very low brain overhead.
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doubt
that outweighs the small benefits.
However, unwind-protect is useful. It's either use that or use
something destructor-related. That just sits on top of some
unwind-protect-like hack in the internals.
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increasing levels. Perl code is not like that. So almost all the
things you'll be threading will be words from the Perl core (rather
than words defined in the program).
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inline threaded code is something who
to unambiguously assign the correct quadrant.
To expand: consider the results of atan2(1,1) and atan2(-1,-1). Now
compare with the results of atan(1) and, well, atan(1). Slopes are
the same going "up" and "down", but the angle is not!
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ot;is_" prefix serves only to make
predicates impossible to read out, leading to thinkos.
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has some feature does not mean
you are obligated to use it in all programs.
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ERE_DOC
This is indented one char.
This is on the left margin.
SECOND_HERE_DOC
But (1) needs to be resolved (and don't say "use tabs 8"!).
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Creturn in Perl5?
(Except, of course, that Creturn inside a Cgrep does a whole lot
more nowadays).
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that sets are bit vectors, drawn on some
pre-specified world!
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ething I'm against, I'm just trying to find a way I could use
it.
But for this to work, the users must not have filesystem access to the
installed modules (otherwise they'll just Cuse lib). In which case
the whole point is moot.
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e of being completed into a syntactically legal construct
(this is a difference between "2+" and "))};;").
Access to the parser needs to be in the core...
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terminator.
Otherwise the behaviour of Cprint 'END#17' is unclear. This issue
was raised during previous discussion of the RFC.
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l, Cperldl,
and any other application written in Perl are a nice idea (one that
TomC seems to support). This has nothing to do with wanting to
configure the language itself.
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eaning to the parsed data.
Such an extension of the perl-parser could definately be applied to a
debugger..
This is a separate issue, which belongs in a separate RFC. The
debugger syntax should be as close as possible to the Perl syntax; any
extensions are probably unwarranted.
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e if this is a good idea. However, bear in mind that if
you want a comment on the end-of-here-document line, you probably
aren't going to add more `#' characters to it.
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ption, as the damage is done before substr ever gets
to see the "line".
A better solution would be a tied-filehandle module which would do its
own buffered reading and croak on long lines; presumably it would use
sysread internally.
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to remember a
professor at the university going on about how Algol68 did _some_
dereferencing automatically.
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Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley writes:
The $a and $b of the sort comparator were A Bad Idea to begin with.
Ditto. Can we ditch these in Perl 6? Don't see why $_[0] and $_[1] can't
be used, or even a more standard $1 and $2. Either one makes it more
John Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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John Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
foo = bar;
foo could be just about anything: a string, a hashref, some other
blessed ref (with op"=" possibly overloaded!), or even an lvalue sub.
Do you know? Shoul
ties were efficient, it would be trivial to implement a SortedHash
which would perform "each"-style accesses in sorted order. Standard
Perl library, anyone?
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bove merge would produce
[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]).
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It's called `zip'. Really.
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will specifically warn _not_ to do this.
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evaluated in
a scalar context (for things to make sense).
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Chaim Frenkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"AS" == Ariel Scolnicov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If the original list has no elements, Creduce immediately returns Cundef.
AS I like everything except this part. Reducing an empty list should be
AS an error.
AS Returning undef (o
f person (which some people are).
Only you must make *very* sure that the variable name you're using in
your block is used *nowhere* else. So it's every bit as bad as using
a global variable -- the name must be unique.
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ot; for globals,
if in effect).
Variable declaration is good (except for some trivial programs)!
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Ariel Scolnicov wrote:
...infinite lists...
This (and your preceeding messages on the subject) is unfortunately
not possible to do in a clean manner; for that matter, neither is the
(..0) proposal. The Iorder in which results ar
"Jeremy Howard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ariel Scolnicov wrote:
Consider Cgrep {$_ = 0} (1..) . (map {-$_} (0..)). Clearly, this
"should" generate the "list" C(..0). But it doesn't! Here's what
really happens: Perl says to itself "1 is not non
sult each time it's called with the same arguments. Then perl would be
smart enough to cache the result of calls to this sub to avoid recalculating
it again later. Personally, however, I find this approach less intuitive.
MJD has a perl5 package which does memoization; this is exactly what
you want
egs = (..-1) would simply
be C@negs = map {-$_} (1..), and the ordering of the result is again
"wrong".
Somebody please prove me wrong by writing useful-looking code that
does not depend on the order of elements, and will work with this sort
of "disordered iterator"!
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On 4 Aug 2000, Ariel Scolnicov wrote:
Karl Glazebrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
OK I will raise to the bait
I think it's a bit unfair to say that PDL people have failed to 'bite',
there was quite a bit of discussion on our list after
no assignment is involved
(hence the `copy' suggestion above). However, no less useful than
deep copy is k-level copy, especially when k==1. Before long, we'll
have `=', `:=', `-' and maybe `===' operators in the language, for
the different levels of copying. This is needless bloat.
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on,
I'm for anything that doesn't require it to do anything.
Typing is also nice for this sort of thing; if we say
##@ Update DiLithium levels
sub foo(int $x) {
my DiLithium $ret;
# ... all returns are via $ret ...
$ret;
}
then Perldoc6 should be able to know that foo has type int -
DiLithium.
others' nose hair.
Have you looked at the documentation that SWIG auto-generates?
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Jarkko Hietaniemi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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Have you looked at the documentation that SWIG auto-generates?
Nope. Can you give a quick summary?
SWIG is a tool for interfacing C (and C++ and Fortran and ...) code
doesn't need is to add a
`-nobondage-and-discipline' flag, so we can't put any compulsory flags
*there*. And `-w' should be the default, as we all know, so we can't
put any compulsory flags on the serious programs, either!
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e all your variables (which I claim is
essential in a language with useful scopes). Of course, it's one
character longer, so I suppose `var' is out of the question...
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