Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Peter Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I think -- Piers) writes:
Though a good post condition would benefit from some sort of
unconditional catch of return, I suppose. Perhaps allowing
continue on the outer sub block...
Argh, no! A good
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 02:18:07PM +1000, Damian Conway wrote:
Though a good post condition would benefit from some sort of
unconditional catch of return, I suppose. Perhaps allowing
continue on the outer sub block...
Argh, no! A good postcondition is either invisible to the
"DS" == Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DS I think I'm missing the point. Why pull 'em out like that? Why not just put
DS the code in the body of the sub? Though a good post condition would benefit
DS from some sort of unconditional catch of return, I suppose. Perhaps
DS allowing
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 01:09:46PM -0800, Michael Fowler wrote:
Several people have suggested strong typing as a feature, and have been shot
down one by one. However, I think it can be done without forcing it on
everyone.
In fact, it can be done with Perl 5, as various people have pointed out,
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:25:33PM +, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
Alan Burlison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No, I disagree. Perl gains a lot of its expressive power from being lax
about typing. I suspect it will also impose an unacceptable overhed for
the vast majority who don't want it -
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 10:47:24PM +0100, Alan Burlison wrote:
I suspect reorganising the data structures to be cache
friendly would gain more benefit than avoiding a few inline bit
twiddles.
We should do both.
Tim.
Michael Fowler wrote:
use typing qw(very-strict);
my integer $foo : very-strict = 4;
Which would enforce that you can only assign integer constants to $foo
(which are seen at compile-time), or other similarly declared integers (or
possibly promoted floats, chars, etc. if you
At 02:31 PM 8/1/00 -0700, Tony Payne wrote:
No, I disagree. Perl gains a lot of its expressive power from being lax
about typing. I suspect it will also impose an unacceptable overhed for
the vast majority who don't want it - at the very least every variable
access will have to check an
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 05:31:56PM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
Several people have suggested strong typing as a feature, and have been shot
down one by one. However, I think it can be done without forcing it on
everyone.
Can it? Are you prepared to make everyone declare the full,
At 09:25 PM 8/1/00 +, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
Alan Burlison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No, I disagree. Perl gains a lot of its expressive power from being lax
about typing. I suspect it will also impose an unacceptable overhed for
the vast majority who don't want it - at the very least
Alan Burlison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No, I disagree. Perl gains a lot of its expressive power from being lax
about typing. I suspect it will also impose an unacceptable overhed for
the vast majority who don't want it - at the very least every variable
access will have to check an 'are you
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