I would not be appalled if Perl 6 were to assume use
of caps for catcher block labels, but I would still like to
see Larry et al reconsider this design choice.
One suggestion is use of label syntax for catcher
blocks (suggests "come-from"). If catch and CATCH
were defined as synonyms, then one co
Peter Haworth writes:
: On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 08:30:41 -0800 (PST), Larry Wall wrote:
: > Andy Wardley writes:
: > : Same with 'last/NEXT' - they're so similar
: > : in concept that the implementation details should not matter.
: >
: > You mean last/LAST and next/NEXT, I suspect. But there's anoth
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 08:30:41 -0800 (PST), Larry Wall wrote:
> Andy Wardley writes:
> : Same with 'last/NEXT' - they're so similar
> : in concept that the implementation details should not matter.
>
> You mean last/LAST and next/NEXT, I suspect. But there's another
> argument for case differentia
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 08:30:41AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> : INIT, DESTROY, AUTOLOAD, etc., all make sense to me. They really are
> : special blocks that normally only occur once in a file. But CATCH and
> : NEXT are part of normal syntax. I don't think they're any more "unusual"
> : in the
Casey West:
# On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 01:45:44PM -0600, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
# :
# :On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 11:50:54AM +, Tim Bunce wrote:
# :> Early on in the life of Perl 5 Larry adopted the convention that
# :> subroutines that Perl calls automatically for you should have
# :> all-cap
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 03:21:37PM -0500, Casey West wrote:
:
:On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 01:45:44PM -0600, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
::
::On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 11:50:54AM +, Tim Bunce wrote:
::> Early on in the life of Perl 5 Larry adopted the convention that
::> subroutines that Perl calls a
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 01:45:44PM -0600, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
:
:On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 11:50:54AM +, Tim Bunce wrote:
:> Early on in the life of Perl 5 Larry adopted the convention that
:> subroutines that Perl calls automatically for you should have
:> all-caps names[*].
:
:Not early
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 11:50:54AM +, Tim Bunce wrote:
> Early on in the life of Perl 5 Larry adopted the convention that
> subroutines that Perl calls automatically for you should have
> all-caps names[*].
Not early enough to catch import() though. Oh well ... Perl 6 will
fix that. (For va
Early on in the life of Perl 5 Larry adopted the convention that
subroutines that Perl calls automatically for you should have
all-caps names[*].
I'm not uncomfortable with the apparent try/CATCH inconsistency.
I suspect that having CATCH etc. be lowercase would create a greater
inconsistency in
