Re: RFC 196 (v1) More direct syntax for hashes

2000-09-07 Thread Michael G Schwern
edge towards the latter because the former is simple enough to reproduce (just explicitly say Csort keys %hash) and its use is mostly when you want to iterate over the keys of a sorted hash, which would largely be eliminated if your proposal returned a 'sorted' hash. -- Michael G Schwern

Re: RFC 196 (v1) More direct syntax for hashes

2000-09-07 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:22:17PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote: Michael G Schwern writes: I was expecting those two crufty features to be removed. If they aren't, a third won't hurt. Might want to add this assumption to the RFC. Or perhaps another RFC to junk reset()'s current meaning

Re: RFC 237 (v1) hashes should interpolate in double-quoted strings

2000-09-15 Thread Michael G Schwern
oo 42 bar 13 The idea of interpolating a hash is cool... but is seperating each pair by $/ really useful? A comma or $" sees to make more sense. Could you show some examples of practical usage? -- Michael G Schwern http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pack/unpack is damn unperlish. Explain them as Perl.

2000-09-18 Thread Michael G Schwern
and assume that by the time users start writing programs with numbers 2**31 they'll have read that far. -- Michael G Schwern http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just Another Stupid Consultant Perl6 Kwalitee Ashuranse Our business in life