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

2000-08-04 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Fri, 04 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"; > Unfortunately (for you), you can't use '?' because it would be > ambiguous

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

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: * Wha

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

2000-08-04 Thread Tom Christiansen
>no implicit; >(Or 'no implicit print;' after rev 2 comes out. ;-) Or "IMPLICIT NONE" :-) --tom

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

2000-08-03 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Thu, 03 Aug 2000, 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 > > What makes something a 'real' void so that it would

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 C. =head1 DESCRIPTION I am lazy. I