On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 03:56:28PM -0500, Mark J. Reed wrote:
Nicer it may be, But I use File::Find *because* it's in the core,
so I don't have to worry about my programs being non-portable because I
use a module that may not be installed.
Of course with Perl 6 modules will be MUCH easier to
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:39:41AM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
: On Monday, November 24, 2003, at 03:28 PM, Luke Palmer wrote:
: Damian Conway writes:
: In which case I think we just fall back to:
:
: try{$opus.write_to_file($file); CATCH {die Couldn't write to
: $file:
: $!}}
:
:
On 2003-11-26 at 12:13:39, chromatic wrote:
Consider Perl 5, where File::Find is a core module. While the interface
may have been nice in 1995 (though I doubt even that), it's been widely
regarded as awful for at least three years. It's likely never to be
removed from the core.
On Wednesday, November 26, 2003, at 12:13 PM, chromatic wrote:
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 11:39, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
I think we also need to be skeptical of the false economy of putting
such sugar into CP6AN, if a sizable portion of the community is going
to download it anyway.
A more interesting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Lazzaro) writes:
I think we also need to be skeptical of the false economy of putting such
sugar into CP6AN, if a sizable portion of the community is going to
download it anyway.
The standard Perl library will be almost entirely removed. The point of this
is to force
On Wednesday, November 26, 2003, at 01:50 PM, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
my $c = (defined($a) ? $a : $b);
Sorry, P5.
Before the grammar police attack...
my $c = (defined($a) ?? $a :: $b);
Parens for clarity.
MikeL
On Wednesday, November 26, 2003, at 12:29 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
If you contrast it with an explicit try block, sure, it looks better.
But
that's not what I compare it with. I compare it with Perl 5's:
$opus.write_to_file($file) or die Couldn't write to $file: $!;
That has some known
