Re: A common event loop

2000-09-19 Thread Peter Scott
the question I put to you all is, would it make sense for Perl to have a common event loop from which all other modules can then draw, thus avoiding the current state of conflict? Absolutely. The architecture of Tk applications will change considerably, for the better. -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design

Re: The distinction between do BLOCK while COND and EXPR while COND should go

2000-09-05 Thread Peter Scott
gripe since I have no idea where to start simplifying. -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies

Re: The distinction between do BLOCK while COND and EXPR while COND should go

2000-09-04 Thread Peter Scott
: 7 Why don't I see three STOREs? and you're left with 7. -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies

Re: The distinction between do BLOCK while COND and EXPR while COND should go

2000-08-31 Thread Peter Scott
the other weird uses of 'do', yes... -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies

Re: The distinction between do BLOCK while COND and EXPR while COND should go

2000-08-31 Thread Peter Scott
in a do block whose value is used by something should be a syntax error. We're talking about code like $x += do { $y = get_num; last if $y == 99; $y } while defined $y; right? *Shudder* -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies

Re: Exceptions and Objects

2000-08-13 Thread Peter Scott
ferent classes, some of which have subclasses (a File error is-a IO error). Users want to define their own kinds while reusing the semantics of the base class. Bingo. -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies

Re: RFC 80 (v1): Exception objects and classes for builtins

2000-08-11 Thread Peter Scott
Redirected to perl6-language-flow. At 12:23 PM 8/11/00 +0100, Graham Barr wrote: On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 07:30:53PM -0700, Peter Scott wrote: If we're really talking about new keywords, we wouldn't need a ; at the end of the last block; it's only needed at the moment because eval