Re: generic ordinal-relevant operators

2006-11-15 Thread TSa
HaloO, Jonathan Lang wrote: I agree that the distinctions between the five different equality tests (=:=, ===, eqv, ==, eq) are rather difficult to grasp (I'm still having trouble getting the difference between '===' and 'eqv', and would appreciate some help). So let's try to join our half kno

Re: generic ordinal-relevant operators

2006-11-15 Thread Larry Wall
You guys should read The Search for the Perfect Language, by Umberto Eco. It would disabuse you of the notion that perfect orthogonality is possible or even desirable. Larry

Re: List assignment question

2006-11-15 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 10:15:42PM -0500, Vincent Foley wrote: : Hello everyone, : : I was toying around with Pugs and I tried the following Perl 5 list : assignment : : my ($a, undef, $b) = 1..3; : : Which gave me the following error message: : : Internal error while running expression: :

Re: List assignment question

2006-11-15 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 11/14/06, Vincent Foley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was toying around with Pugs and I tried the following Perl 5 list assignment my ($a, undef, $b) = 1..3; Huh. I didn't think that worked in Perl 5, either. What am I misremembering? I distinctly recall having to do things like (my $a,

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r13478 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-11-15 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Wed Nov 15 09:35:04 2006 New Revision: 13478 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: Clarifications on use of identifiers, names, and bare sigils. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod == ---

Re: List assignment question

2006-11-15 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On 11/15/06, Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/14/06, Vincent Foley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was toying around with Pugs and I tried the following Perl 5 list assignment > > my ($a, undef, $b) = 1..3; Huh. I didn't think that worked in Perl 5, either. What am I misrememberi

Re: List assignment question

2006-11-15 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Nov 15, 2006, at 12:04 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote: On 11/14/06, Vincent Foley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was toying around with Pugs and I tried the following Perl 5 list assignment my ($a, undef, $b) = 1..3; Huh. I didn't think that worked in Perl 5, either. What am I misrememberi

Re: List assignment question

2006-11-15 Thread Paul Seamons
> > my ($a, undef, $b) = 1..3; > > Huh. I didn't think that worked in Perl 5, either. What am I > misremembering? I distinctly recall having to do things like (my $a, undef, > my $b) to avoid errors because you can't assign to undef. Maybe I'm just > hallucinating. Are you remembering this:

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r13479 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-11-15 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Wed Nov 15 10:44:13 2006 New Revision: 13479 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: Clarification of $::foo et al. suggested by [partical]++ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod == --- doc/

Re: List assignment question

2006-11-15 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 05:41:24PM +, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On 11/15/06, Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 11/14/06, Vincent Foley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I was toying around with Pugs and I tried the following Perl 5 list > >assignment > >> > >> my ($a, undef,

Re: List assignment question

2006-11-15 Thread Dave Mitchell
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:17:57PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote: > I thought that allowing undef in my ($a, undef, $b) came in around 5.004ish, > but I can't find it in perldelta, and I don't have a version compiled to > test with (or any quick way to compile them, given that pretty much only > AIX

Re: List assignment question

2006-11-15 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 11/15/06, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/15/06, Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/14/06, Vincent Foley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was toying around with Pugs and I tried the following Perl 5 list assignment > > > > my ($a, undef, $b) = 1..3; > >

Re: List assignment question

2006-11-15 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 11/15/06, Dave Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: $ perl-5322 -we'my ($x,undef,$y) = 1..3' Can't declare undef operator in my at -e line 1, near ") =" Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. $ perl545 -we'my ($x,undef,$y) = 1..3' $ Ah-hah! So I'm not crazy! Necessarily, anyway.