Re: Synposis 26 - Documentation [alpha draft]

2006-10-13 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
head3 :numbered =cut method foo($bar, $baz) { ... } =head3 Cfoo(RbarC, RbazC) ... Is that =head3 numbered, or is it in a different lexical scope? (Actually, I don't see any reference to =cut in this spec. Is it still there or not?) -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Classification syntax [Was: Renaming grep]

2005-11-18 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
certainly wrote List::Part based on that discussion... -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker

Re: Hyphens vs. Underscores

2005-11-16 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
to do unambiguously: just override the Perl 6 grammar's identifier rule. All the edge cases will be resolved by the longest token principle, so `foo-bar-baz` will be an identifier. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker

Re: Ways to add behavior

2005-10-26 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
. Some of us could make either kind of joke. But perhaps it wouldn't be kind. Flavor. (Shades of CLOS, but we're already building the most flexible object system since it...) -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker

Re: new sigil

2005-10-20 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
)Greater than / Anonymous rule Divide ? Boolify There are very few unary operators available, and none (besides the user-defined backticks operator) unused in both term and operator context. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker

Re: What the heck is a submethod (good for)

2005-10-13 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
of syntactic sugar for inserting `call` in the method body, but that's an implementation detail, really... -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker

Re: Proposal to make class method non-inheritable

2005-10-12 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
their implementation is inconvenient is not The Perl Way. If it were, Perl 6 would be Java With Sigils. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker

Re: my $key is sensitive;

2005-10-04 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
no point in supporting the feature at all. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker

my $key is sensitive;

2005-10-03 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
or making sure a destructor is correctly called), and optimizers have been known to helpfully remove such code. Many higher-level languages, including Perl 5, make it hard to know when a piece of data is being overwritten, rather than a pointer being changed. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL

Re: item and slurpy

2005-09-09 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
, not adjectives. But Pugs's internal type names are fairly irrelevant, as long as they have the right names on the outside. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker

Re: multisub.arity?

2005-09-07 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
; return [EMAIL PROTECTED] #but true; } return; } I rather like that non-lexical use of junctions. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker

[RELEASE] WWW::Kontent 0.02: Release and revelations

2005-09-01 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
and the Perl Foundation, especially my mentor at TPF, Ovid. Nor would this project be possible wtihout the efforts of the Perl 6 design team and the Pugs implementation team. Thanks to everyone involved. Share and enjoy, -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker

Re: Classes as special undefs

2005-08-11 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
; $spot.can('bark');# Not until he's instantiated... On the gripping hand, maybe you should have to ask the metaclass about that anyway: $spot.meta.class_can('bark');#No $spot.meta.instance_can('bark');#Yes Hmm. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot

Re: undef.chars?

2005-08-04 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
subscripting does? -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker

Re: Curious use of .assuming in S06

2005-07-29 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
comma between adverbial pairs, and even omit parens around method call arguments? Is .assuming a special form? Isn't this just another form of the syntactic rule that gives us @array.grep:{ ... } ? -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker

$value.confess()

2005-07-28 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
probably be a global setting, not a lexical one. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker

Re: Exposing the Garbage Collector

2005-07-23 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
, keeping an array of weak references, or waving a wooden wand and yelling Accio objects is completely up to the metaclass in question. (Sorry, been reading too much Potter lately...) -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker

Re: Do I need has $.foo; for accessor-only virtual attributes?

2005-07-22 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
*. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker

Re: Tail method calls, can(), and pre-currying

2005-07-22 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
On 21/07/05, Adriano Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But is there any other case where we need an explicit tail call with goto? When the callee uses `caller -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker

Tail method calls, can(), and pre-currying

2005-07-20 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
invoked as a tail call. Of course, this adds *another* piece of syntax to an already large language, so I'm not sure if it's a good idea. Am I missing something? How do you think a tail method call should be performed? -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker

Re: proposal: binding with a function

2005-06-20 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
, a simple name like alias is ambiguous about argument order, where an operator isn't.) -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker

Re: proposal: binding with a function

2005-06-20 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
will be able to support Ruby, then it will be able to support this function, too. As I've said before, Perl supports `alias`--it's just spelled `:=`. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker

Re: %hash1 ... %hash2

2005-06-14 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
that when [EMAIL PROTECTED] != [EMAIL PROTECTED], the shorter one got extended with undefs... -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker

Re: How much do we close over?

2005-06-12 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
possible. Hmm...maybe the answer is that most destruction isn't guaranteed to be timely, and any object which *is* guaranteed to have timely destruction is illegal to close over unless the programmer marks it as okay. Or maybe that's only with an appropriate stricture... -- Brent 'Dax' Royal

Re: Perl development server

2005-05-23 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Andy Bach wrote off-list: Isn't Abigail the golfer, YA excellent PH, FunWithPerl, er guy? I think camels are Fido and Amelia: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=31716 You're right, of course. I knew it was one of those A names... -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot

Re: Argument Type Checking

2005-05-23 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
intercaps modules are normal (modules and classes). Similarly, all-lowercase types are special (unboxed), while intercaps types are normal (boxed classes). -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker

Re: Roles and BUILD

2005-05-16 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
...) -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker

Re: Plethora of operators

2005-05-14 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
---/. I think that means this should be in core. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker

Re: ^method ?

2005-05-14 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
thread, but I'm certainly not attached to those keywords.) -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker

Re: trait and properties thru getter/setters

2005-05-13 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
at compile time what is the value/trait name and its value. Well, the value's pretty easy--just pass in a variable: my $b = $a is foo($bar); As for the name, I'd be surprised if the standard symbolic-ref syntax didn't work: my $b = $a is ::($foo)($bar); -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL

Re: trait and properties thru getter/setters

2005-05-13 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
On 5/13/05, Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 12:26:22PM -0700, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: : my $b = $a is foo($bar); As we currently have it, that is not legal syntax. is may only be applied to declarations. Sorry, think-o. I meant 'but' in my examples

Re: Binding to a sub's return value

2005-05-10 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
the default parameter binding is constant reference, last I checked. I actually like that answer. It means that you can bind the return value, but you can't mutate it, unless the function 'is rw'. (And perhaps you could mark it as 'is copy' and 'is ref', too...) -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL

Re: reduce metaoperator

2005-05-05 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
that tags each result with the operands that created it, allowing junctions to be used for the stuff people currently complain they can't be. multi sub *infixmetaop:[ ] ( $lhs, $rhs ) { return call but operands($lhs, $rhs); } -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl

Re: Formal Parameters To While Block

2005-05-01 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
). To start off the name game: `is deferred`? `is closure`, `is coderef`, `is sub`? `is condition`? -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I used to have a life, but I liked mail-reading so much better.

Re: Junctions of classes, roles, etc.

2005-04-30 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
junctions.) When you see a declaration like: my Foo $bar; Think of it as being like: my $bar where { $_ ~~ Foo }; If the latter, then what is the type of Yes|1? I suspect it's `Disjunction of Str | Int`. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I used to have

Re: Junctions of classes, roles, etc.

2005-04-29 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
? sub foo(Any | Junction $bar) { ... } -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I used to have a life, but I liked mail-reading so much better.

Re: alarm() and later()

2005-04-21 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assuming we rehuffmanize kill to sendsignal or some such, we have: signal is a verb as well as a noun. sub alarm ($secs) { { signal $*PID, Signal::ALARM }.cue(:delay($secs)); } It even reads pretty nicely: signal 4242. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal

Re: Context of hash slices; quotation adverbs

2005-04-17 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
context and one-element array context? -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I used to have a life, but I liked mail-reading so much better.

Re: Truely temporary variables

2005-04-15 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
.) -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I used to have a life, but I liked mail-reading so much better.

Re: Hyper operator corner case?

2005-04-13 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
:/1 infix:%mumble infix:x1 I could be wrong, though; I can't find any support for it in the design docs. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I used to have a life, but I liked mail-reading so much better.

Re: Slicing conflict

2005-04-12 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
...] Which strikes me as a win. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I used to have a life, but I liked mail-reading so much better.

Re: Slicing conflict

2005-04-12 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:08:43AM -0700, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: : @foo[1,3; *; 7] : : Which I rather like. Me too. Unless my memory is failing me, I believe that's what S09 already specifies. It does include a Cterm:* (d'oh, should've

Re: Definitive and Complete Perl 6 Operator List

2005-04-02 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
--or for that matter if anything's there that shouldn't be. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I used to have a life, but I liked mail-reading so much better.

Re: Slices

2005-03-20 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
-- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I used to have a life, but I liked mail-reading so much better.

Re: [Fwd: Re: [RFC] A more extensible/flexible POD (ROUGH-DRAFT)]

2005-03-17 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
to convert. 5. Readable without a formatter. #5 may be last on the list, but it's not least. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I used to have a life, but I liked mail-reading so much better.

Re: [Fwd: Re: [RFC] A more extensible/flexible POD (ROUGH-DRAFT)]

2005-03-17 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Pod dies as a useful documentation language. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I used to have a life, but I liked mail-reading so much better.

Re: New S29 draft up

2005-03-17 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
to be longer than do STRING. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I used to have a life, but I liked mail-reading so much better.

Re: A possible solution for s?pintf

2005-03-12 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
want to perform bulk formatting: say join ' ', ($n1, $n2, $n3) .as('%d'); Or, if that's not quite sufficient: say map { .key.as(.value) } $num = '%d', $str = '%s', ...; -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I used to have a life

Re: some misc Perl 6 questions

2005-03-09 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
the other as trusted. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I used to have a life, but I liked mail-reading so much better.

Re: Optional binding

2005-03-06 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
of Array (or maybe just Array) is consistent with Any; hence $y receives [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I used to have a life, but I liked mail-reading so much better.

Re: Sets vs Junctions

2005-02-22 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
be Any). -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I used to have a life, but I liked mail-reading so much better.

Re: Lingering questions about Junctions.

2005-02-19 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
?), and the Cundefs would be treated as 0s. So this actually would work, although it would sort in an...interesting...order. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I used to have a life, but I liked mail-reading so much better.

Re: Junction Values

2005-02-19 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
datatype to a variable is an abomination). Point of consideration: is accidentally autothreading over a junction any more dangerous than accidentally looping forever over an infinite lazy list? -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I used to have a life, but I liked mail

Re: Junction Values

2005-02-18 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
, for example.) Junctions are equivalent to the English sentence Get eggs, bacon, and toast from the store. (In Perl, that'd be something like C $store-get(eggs bacon toast) .) It's just a bit of orthogonality that allows you to give eggs, bacon, and toast a name and use it later. -- Brent 'Dax

Re: Junction Values

2005-02-18 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
returns from an autothreaded function.) -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I used to have a life, but I liked mail-reading so much better.

Re: Junction Values

2005-02-18 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
either, while more experienced programmers will know better. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I used to have a life, but I liked mail-reading so much better.

Re: Junction Values

2005-02-18 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
: $! for *$IN;# Or however it's done this week -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I used to have a life, but I liked mail-reading so much better.

Re: Retry: ITypes and VTypes.

2005-02-05 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
) {...} foo($var); I would assume the answer is syntax error. (Remember, array parameters don't slurp in Perl 6 unless they have a *.) -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker For those of you that can't spell, this site also contains free imags, iamges, imges, picturs

Re: Retry: ITypes and VTypes.

2005-02-03 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
. :) Either that, or the Ref value type is designed to wrap an implementation type. I'm not sure which is the case. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker For those of you that can't spell, this site also contains free imags, iamges, imges, picturs, pcitures

Re: forany, forall...

2005-01-16 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
element in a list, do something. if any(@list) 10 { ... } -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker For those of you that can't spell, this site also contains free imags, iamges, imges, picturs, pcitures, picktures, picturess, and pistures.

Re: specifying the key Type for a Hash

2004-12-07 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
patients WHERE lastname = ? AND firstname = ?, $last, $first ); } ... } -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I might be an idiot, but not a stupid one. --c.l.p.misc (name omitted to protect the foolish)

Re: specifying the key Type for a Hash

2004-12-07 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Matt Diephouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 00:39:08 -0800, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon my Patient @byid[Int $id] { select_patients(SELECT * FROM patients WHERE patientid = ?, $id)[0]; } multi my Patient %byname{String $last} { select_patients

Re: iteration (was Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets)

2004-12-04 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
). -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I might be an idiot, but not a stupid one. --c.l.p.misc (name omitted to protect the foolish)

Re: pull put (Was: Angle quotes and pointy brackets)

2004-12-04 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
enough to negate that. But then, I'm a little biased. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I might be an idiot, but not a stupid one. --c.l.p.misc (name omitted to protect the foolish)

Re: pull put (Was: Angle quotes and pointy brackets)

2004-12-04 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
to pull, and use something like put/take for shift/unshift? That goes way beyond offending shell heritage. That actively opposes sixty years of computer science terminology setting push and pop in opposition. (Well, maybe not *sixty* years, but you get the idea.) -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL

Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets

2004-12-03 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
.] -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I might be an idiot, but not a stupid one. --c.l.p.misc (name omitted to protect the foolish)

Re: state vs my

2004-12-03 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
; I know it's *going* away, but it hasn't *gone* away yet. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I might be an idiot, but not a stupid one. --c.l.p.misc (name omitted to protect the foolish)

Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets

2004-11-30 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I might be an idiot, but not a stupid one. --c.l.p.misc (name omitted to protect the foolish)

Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets

2004-11-30 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
subs, though, and the last two would be whitespace-sensitive. (But it looks like that isn't a bad thing anymore...) Any other suggestions, people? -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I might be an idiot, but not a stupid one. --c.l.p.misc (name omitted

Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets

2004-11-30 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
. Without that, though, I think the metaphor shear of @$fh is too harsh, and the duplication between .fetch and .[shift|pull] isn't necessary. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I might be an idiot, but not a stupid one. --c.l.p.misc (name omitted to protect

Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets

2004-11-30 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
John Siracusa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/30/04 9:54 PM, Matt Diephouse wrote: use CGI «:standard»; [...] use CGi :standard; Who is doing this? I'm just saying... use CGI ':standard'; And won't we just be doing: use CGI :standard; anyway? -- Brent 'Dax' Royal

Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets

2004-11-29 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
one-liner!' One-liners with no specific support in the core--and it's different from Perl 5, so we can detect old one-liners. How's that for orthagonal? -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker I might be an idiot, but not a stupid one. --c.l.p.misc (name omitted

Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets

2004-11-28 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
unused.) Actually, if we do something else with backticks, we can steal backticks for totally raw quoting... I'm open to other ideas, though we must remind ourselves that this is all very bike-sheddish. Oh, I vote for blue paint on that bike shed. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Perl6/Parrot and Backwards Compatability

2004-10-31 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
of SVs, or deal with things like the parse tree (B::*), will need to be rewritten. (But many of those things are necessary because Parrot does them very differently--e.g. it uses bytecode instead of executing the parse tree directly.) -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot

Re: S5: array interpolation

2004-09-15 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
quotes don't interpolate @foo[...]) @a = ('a', 'b', 'c'); '@a[0]' ~~ m:/ @a /; # true '@a[2]' ~~ m:/ @a /; # true '@a[9]' ~~ m:/ @a /; # false I think he means as opposed to a subrule. In Perl 5 terms, there's an implicit \Q\E around each value in the array. -- Brent 'Dax

Re: Return with no expression

2004-08-24 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker There is no cabal.

Re: A thought for later -- POD tables

2004-08-22 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
sub truth | match if C$x($_) [1] Actually, in CSS a table is neither an inline nor a block construct--it's considered its own category, because normal block constructs have a default width of 100%, while tables are only wide enough to hold their contents. Same difference... -- Brent 'Dax

Re: Synopsis 4 draft 1

2004-08-20 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
: macro statement:if ($expr, ifblock) {...} macro statement:while ($expr, whileblock) {...} macro statement:BEGIN (beginblock) {...} And he answers another but how do we... question with a simultaneous [unific|simplific|generaliz]ation. Larry, you're a genius. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-28 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Piers Cawley wrote: Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Care to explain what those are, O great math teacher? What's a math teacher? It's the right^H^H^H^H^HAmerican way to say maths teacher. -- Brent Dax Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker Oceania has always been

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-26 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
teacher? *ducks* -- Brent Dax Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

Re: Why do users need FileHandles?

2004-07-24 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
anything that isn't present, as a core behavior right out of the box. Security nightmare. -- Brent Dax Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

Re: Why do users need FileHandles?

2004-07-24 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
module. Or something like that. Hmm...maybe this could be done for Perl 5... -- Brent Dax Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

Re: xx and re-running

2004-07-23 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
with reduce(), IIUC. I would hope that Perl 6 will have reduce() as well--perhaps even in a form that doesn't require using List::Util explicitly. -- Brent Dax Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

Re: String interpolation

2004-07-21 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
. D'oh.] [And then I sent it to the wrong one. D'oh * 2.] -- Brent Dax Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

Re: String interpolation

2004-07-21 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
','baz') should work, at least outside a string. Roles are nice, but don't forget about the other mechanisms in Perl for such things. Erm, properties *are* roles. Your example is the same as mine. True, I suppose... -- Brent Dax Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker Oceania has always

Re: String interpolation

2004-07-21 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Uri Guttman wrote: how would you put in the literal string $foo.bar()? escaping the . or the ( ? The dollar sign. (Or, if you wanted to interpolate $foo while leaving the .bar() intact, I would imagine that either \. or \( would suffice.) -- Brent Dax Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl

Re: enhanced open-funktion

2004-07-15 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
on either side of the string. This would still allow the often-useful type a pipe command at a prompt for a file, while matching the trait-based syntax suggested elsewhere. -- Brent Dax Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

Re: push with lazy lists

2004-07-12 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
safe mode restricts the length of lazy lists, which I would recommend given the existence this little ball of hate.) -- Brent Dax Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

Re: if not C, then what?

2004-07-09 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
} while baz; # assuming we rename exec execute { foo; bar } while baz;# longer, still stupid eval { foo; bar } while baz; # we just escaped overloaded eval { foo; bar }() while baz; # bare-bones -- Brent Dax Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker

Re: The .bytes/.codepoints/.graphemes methods

2004-07-03 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
based on my own, possibly false, memory.) -- Brent Dax Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

Re: Cmap Cgrep and lazyness

2004-07-03 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
{ even() } :lazy 1..1024; -- Brent Dax Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

Re: undo()?

2004-07-02 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
*. Nearly any control flow construct can. (I think a goto() can't, but that's about it.) Loops, exceptions, and subroutines can all be implemented in terms of continuations--but so can almost any other control flow construct you can think of, and most likely some you can't. -- Brent Dax Royal

Re: undo()?

2004-07-01 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
another thread's continuation. But that's not what you're asking at all.) -- Brent Dax Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

Re: definitions of truth

2004-06-26 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
their modules to use it the way they do for Int, Num and String. -- Brent Dax Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

The .bytes/.codepoints/.graphemes methods

2004-06-26 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
said ambiguity removed. * Allows us to reuse constructs (e.g. slicing). * Opens up a few previously-difficult constructs (like getting the ord() of an arbitrary character). -- Brent Dax Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

Re: definitions of truth

2004-06-25 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
; } } } -- Brent Dax Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

Re: definitions of truth

2004-06-24 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
: my $foo = '0'; my String $bar = '0'; if $foo { say 'foo true' } if $bar { say 'bar true' } Would print 'bar true', but not 'foo true'. (In other words, variables of type Any keep the Perl 5 behavior, but variables of type String have the behavior you want.) -- Brent Dax Royal

Re: cmd line like switches for functions and operators.

2004-06-22 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
; ... } The colon is just a different syntax for a pair constructor; say is what many languages call printline. -- Brent Dax Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

Re: Yadda yadda yadda some more

2004-05-14 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
:+ $x + $y postfix:++ $x++ ... ** It's not exactly clear how that's used, considering that you can't do multi-dispatch on the return type (right?)...perhaps like multi sub coerce:as(Int $dest is rw, MyObj $src) {...} -- Brent Dax

Re: $foo.s/foo/bar/

2004-05-12 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
/// to get the new string ang $foo.=s/// to mutate $foo. Working from the other direction, parens are not valid pattern delimiters, leaving s() open for use: print s(/:g \w+/, 'WORD'); (Or somesuch...dunno about the positioning of :g.) -- Brent Dax Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot

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