On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 05:41:57AM -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
. Some criticized it as being too sugary, since this:
$string =~ quotemeta;# $string = quotemeta $string;
Is not as clear as the original. However, there is fairly similar
precedent in:
$x += 5;
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 11:31:08PM +0100, Hugo wrote:
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Perl6 RFC Librarian writes:
:=head1 ABSTRACT
:
:Remove C?{ code }, C??{ code } and friends.
Whoops, I missed this bit - what 'friends' do you mean?
Whatever even more bizarre extensions people will have suggested
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 08:56:47PM +, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
I think the proposal that Joe McMahon and I are finishing up now will
make these obsolete anyway.
Good! The less I have to maintain the better...
--
Keep the number of passes in a compiler to a minimum.
-- D.
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 04:55:18PM -0400, Michael Maraist wrote:
A lot of what is trying to happen in (?{..}) and friends is parsing.
That's not the problem that I'm trying to solve. The problem I'm trying
to solve is interdependence. Parsing is neither here nor there.
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Intel engineering
