Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-10 though 2006-01-24

2006-01-25 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
Matt Fowles wrote: LuaNil Morphing Klaas-Jan Stol proffered a patch which changed LuaNil from a singleton and made it morph to other Lua types when asked. Warnock applies. Actually, François Perrad applied this patch, but I think he only sent a reply to me.

ff and fff [Was: till (the flipflop operator, formerly ..)]

2006-01-25 Thread Larry Wall
I've changed the flipflop operator/macro to "ff", short for "flipflop". This has several benefits. It's a doubled char like other short-circuit operators. It lets us add an "fff" to be equivalent to p5's scalar ... operator, and either of them can take the ^ modifiers to exclude endpoints. In tr

Re: ff and fff [Was: till (the flipflop operator, formerly ..)]

2006-01-25 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:37:42AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > I've changed the flipflop operator/macro to "ff", short for "flipflop". > This has several benefits. ... ...another of which is that we can use "ff" and "fff" to mean "loud" and "really loud" in our perl poetr^H^H^H^H^Hmusic. :-) Pm

Re: ff and fff [Was: till (the flipflop operator, formerly ..)]

2006-01-25 Thread Juerd
Patrick R. Michaud skribis 2006-01-25 13:47 (-0600): > On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:37:42AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > > I've changed the flipflop operator/macro to "ff", short for "flipflop". > > This has several benefits. ... > ...another of which is that we can use "ff" and "fff" to mean "loud"

Re: ff and fff [Was: till (the flipflop operator, formerly ..)]

2006-01-25 Thread Rob Kinyon
On 1/25/06, Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Patrick R. Michaud skribis 2006-01-25 13:47 (-0600): > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:37:42AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > > > I've changed the flipflop operator/macro to "ff", short for "flipflop". > > > This has several benefits. ... > > ...another of w

Re: ff and fff [Was: till (the flipflop operator, formerly ..)]

2006-01-25 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:37:42AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > I've changed the flipflop operator/macro to "ff", short for "flipflop". Two questions: 1) Will ff (and fff) require whitespace around them? 2) Do we get a more punctuationish unicode equivalent? -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL

Re: ff and fff [Was: till (the flipflop operator, formerly ..)]

2006-01-25 Thread Juerd
Jonathan Scott Duff skribis 2006-01-25 14:49 (-0600): > 1) Will ff (and fff) require whitespace around them? I hope it will be exactly like x and xx. They need whitespace around them if otherwise it'd be part of an identifier. > 2) Do we get a more punctuationish unicode equivalent? I fear some

Re: ff and fff [Was: till (the flipflop operator, formerly ..)]

2006-01-25 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 02:49:51PM -0600, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:37:42AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > > I've changed the flipflop operator/macro to "ff", short for "flipflop". > > Two questions: > > 1) Will ff (and fff) require whitespace around them? > 2) Do we ge

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2006-01-25 Thread Jonathan Lang
Larry Wall wrote: > But my hunch is that it's > a deep tagmemic/metaphorical problem we're trying to solve here. > Such issues arise whenever you start making statements of the form > "I want to use an A as if it were a B." The problem is much bigger > than just how do I translate Perl 5 to Perl 6