Jonathan Worthington wrote:
Juerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You both use iff. What does that mean?
I believe it's to be read if and only if.
Yes, but that doesn't explain what it means. Rather than me try to
explain it (poorly)...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_and_only_if
David
Uri Guttman wrote:
[...]
i think so but i can't read larry's mind (nor would i want to! :)
XP = extreme programming
DBC = design by contract (or even designed by conway :)
MP = ??
Modular Programming
David
Aaron Sherman wrote:
So hold on to your socks... what about:
@x @y;
This reminds me of AWK's string concatenation behaviour:
print this $1 that $2
This was nice feature at the time, but caused problems down the track
when they wanted to add functions to the language in a subsequent
Mark Lentczner wrote:
All -
Awhile back, I saw Larry Wall give a short talk about the current design
of Perl 6. At some point he put up a list of all the operators - well
over a hundred of them! I had a sudden inspiration, but it took a few
months to get around to drawing it...
Damian Conway wrote:
[...]
Hence, I would argue, one ought to simply mark it with a trait:
sub foo() {
my $s is retained = 0;
$s++;
}
Other possible trait names:
is kept
is preserved
is permanent
is reused
is saved
is stored
is restored
is
