Re: how typish are roles

2006-10-30 Thread TSa
HaloO, Jonathan Lang wrote: Larry Wall wrote: But I'm still somewhat set against the notion of using logical ops to do set theory. (Even if you put parens around them.) Understandably so. Perhaps (u) and (n) would be better ASCII equivalents for the union and intersection operators...

Re: where constraints as roles (was Re: how typish are roles)

2006-10-30 Thread TSa
HaloO, Jonathan Lang wrote: At its core, a type is nothing more than a constraint on the objects that a given variable is allowed to handle; this would put Cwhere clauses at the center of the type system, with roles coming in a very close second due to the implicit use of .does() in the compact

Re: where constraints as roles (was Re: how typish are roles)

2006-10-30 Thread Jonathan Lang
TSa wrote: IOW, I fear this could only be put to work with two subset declarations subset ab of Str where /^a.*b$/; subset aabb of ab where /^aa.*bb$/; and the notion that the second subset by virtue of constraining the possible values further produces a more specific subtype for

beginner's question

2006-10-30 Thread Richard Liu
Hi, G'day! I am new to the Perl language. As a university student, I want to use perl to build some codes to work as tracing and automatic analysing tool with my data file in Linux environment. Could you kindly teach me which IDE tools should I use (freeware and shareware better :-)

Re: beginner's question

2006-10-30 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 08:09:56AM -0800, Richard Liu wrote: I am new to the Perl language. As a university student, I want to use perl to build some codes to work as tracing and automatic analysing tool with my data file in Linux environment. Could you kindly teach me which IDE tools

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r13350 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-10-30 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Mon Oct 30 12:18:19 2006 New Revision: 13350 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod Log: 1st whack at applying dwimmy hypers to hashes. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod == ---

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r13350 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-10-30 Thread Larry Wall
Arguably I've got the dwimminess backwards on this. It seems like %outer «+=» %inner ought to dwim that I want the union of keys. In that view the standard non-dwimmy behavior is to ignore keys that are not in the other hash, and dwimmery consists of using keys even if they aren't in the