On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 08:33:33AM -0400, Stephen P. Potter wrote:
How about symbolic refs to function names?
$a = $x ? hop : skip;
$b = $y ? scotch : soda;
$a.$b;# call one of hop.scotch, skip.scotch, hop.soda, skip.soda
5.005_03 and under required parens after the method
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 07:23:47PM -0700, Edward Peschko wrote:
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 03:16:46AM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
SPACE SENSITIVE and SOME OF US HAVE TO TEACH IT. Do you understand yet?
Just for the record, I'm totally with Simon here. Having . do triple
duty (decimals, method
At 09:16 AM 4/26/2001 +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 08:33:33AM -0400, Stephen P. Potter wrote:
| Alternately, we can overload . to do a deref on (blessed?) references,
| and
| concat otherwise.
I think this would lead to hard to find bugs when someone mispelled
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:38:50PM -0700, Brent Dax wrote:
IMHO, . can DWIM in most cases even if it's both object deref _and_
concat--without paying any attention to whitespace.
Please, no. Some of us have to *teach* this language.
--
The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 06:30:37PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:38:50PM -0700, Brent Dax wrote:
IMHO, . can DWIM in most cases even if it's both object deref _and_
concat--without paying any attention to whitespace.
Please, no. Some of us have to *teach* this
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:33:52PM -0700, Edward Peschko wrote:
I think its really time to have a vote on this
Aaargh. I don't. Wouldn't you rather wait and see what Larry is
planning with all this? I doubt the proposed changes are gratuitous,
and I think he's got a pretty good track record
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:03:50AM +0200, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:33:52PM -0700, Edward Peschko wrote:
I think its really time to have a vote on this
Aaargh. I don't. Wouldn't you rather wait and see what Larry is
planning with all this? I doubt the proposed
On Wednesday 25 April 2001 18:33, Edward Peschko wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 06:30:37PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:38:50PM -0700, Brent Dax wrote:
IMHO, . can DWIM in most cases even if it's both object deref
_and_ concat--without paying any attention to
'.' is already, to some extent, space sensitive anyway, because it has
to pull double duty as a decimal point, as well.
'4.5' (4.5) vs '4 .5' (45) vs '4. 5' (missing operator)
beautiful. Then extending this is simple, consistent, easy to read, compatible
with perl5..
Ed
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:33:52PM -0700, Edward Peschko wrote:
Please, no. Some of us have to *teach* this language.
Then I guess that either space sensitive '.' is the answer
Sorry. I'll try it again.
SPACE SENSITIVE and SOME OF US HAVE TO TEACH IT. Do you understand yet?
Are you *really*
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 03:16:46AM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:33:52PM -0700, Edward Peschko wrote:
Please, no. Some of us have to *teach* this language.
Then I guess that either space sensitive '.' is the answer
Sorry. I'll try it again.
SPACE SENSITIVE and
On Wednesday 25 April 2001 21:37, Edward Peschko wrote:
'.' is already, to some extent, space sensitive anyway, because it
has to pull double duty as a decimal point, as well.
'4.5' (4.5) vs '4 .5' (45) vs '4. 5' (missing operator)
beautiful. Then extending this is simple, consistent,
beautiful. Then extending this is simple, consistent, easy to read,
compatible with perl5..
I'm not sure that that was the point I was trying to make.
If nothing else, the '.' would then be responsible for *three*
different actions.
Right, but what *I* am saying is that any given user
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 07:23:47PM -0700, Edward Peschko wrote:
: On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 03:16:46AM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
: On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:33:52PM -0700, Edward Peschko wrote:
:Please, no. Some of us have to *teach* this language.
: Then I guess that either space
More often that you might think. I see Perl folks who love white
space writing:
print
$cgi - header,
$cgi - start_html,
$cgi - h2( 'my page' ),
$cgi - hr,
$cgi - a(
{ -href = 'http://geeknest.com' },
$cgi -
Edward Peschko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
beautiful. Then extending this is simple, consistent, easy to read,
compatible with perl5..
I'm not sure that that was the point I was trying to make.
If nothing else, the '.' would then be responsible for *three*
different actions.
IMHO, . can DWIM in most cases even if it's both object deref _and_
concat--without paying any attention to whitespace.
Let's think about this for a minute. What are the common cases for use of
concat?
$a.b;
a.$b;
$a.$b;
a.$b;
$a.b;
a.b;
The first two are obviously concat, since that code
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