Re: RFC 2 (v1) Request For New Pragma: Implicit

2000-08-04 Thread Bart Lateur
On 03 Aug 2000 22:23:08 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote: What would be the method to _avoid_ emitting something? What would be the result of open(Foo, "Bar")# Prints FILEHANDLE=0xdeadbeef $x++; # Prints 3 Exactly. I can think of even more cases: * What do

Re: RFC 2 (v1) Request For New Pragma: Implicit

2000-08-04 Thread Tim Jenness
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Bart Lateur wrote: I think it's a bad idea. I would rather do it as the C64 did: use a very short function name as an alternative to "print". P "This gets printed!", "\n", "Yeah!\n"; Just like perldl already allows(but that's an intereactive shell so we try

Re: RFC 2 (v1) Request For New Pragma: Implicit

2000-08-03 Thread Chaim Frenkel
What would be the method to _avoid_ emitting something? What would be the result of open(Foo, "Bar")# Prints FILEHANDLE=0xdeadbeef $x++; # Prints 3 What makes something a 'real' void so that it would print. Vs. not having something that would catch the

RFC 2 (v1) Request For New Pragma: Implicit

2000-08-02 Thread Perl6 RFC Librarian
=head1 TITLE Request For New Pragma: Implicit =head1 VERSION Maintainer: Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 01 Aug 2000 Version: 1 Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Number: 2 =head1 ABSTRACT Perl 6 should add a new pragma called Cimplicit. =head1 DESCRIPTION I am