Damian Conway schrieb:
If the very much more readable 'zip' and 'minmax' are
to be replaced with 'ZZ' and 'MM', then I think that's a serious step
backwards in usability.
Fully agree here and I think that there are still even more places,
where the usability could be improved:
Say more
On 2/21/07, Thomas Wittek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Damian Conway schrieb:
If the very much more readable 'zip' and 'minmax' are
to be replaced with 'ZZ' and 'MM', then I think that's a serious step
backwards in usability.
Fully agree here and I think that there are still even more places,
Thomas Wittek wrote:
Damian Conway schrieb:
If the very much more readable 'zip' and 'minmax' are
to be replaced with 'ZZ' and 'MM', then I think that's a serious step
backwards in usability.
Fully agree here and I think that there are still even more places,
where the usability could be
Luke Palmer wrote:
% as the mod operator is a good example of what you describe.
There's no need for mod to be a symbolic operator: when you read 5 % 3
you say 5 mod 3. Why would we not write 5 mod 3: it is just as
obvious what and how we are doing this operation. And % is uncommon
enough that
Author: larry
Date: Wed Feb 21 09:25:37 2007
New Revision: 13699
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod
Log:
¥ is replaced by Z. XX becomes simply X and old X must now be spelled X~X.
Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod
DC == Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DC On 21/02/07, Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Off-list]
DC Apparently not.
DC Just pretend I'm not here.
DC ;-)
we can't pretend as we can sense your mad scientist brain across the big
waters. there ain't enough aluminum foil
Recently $larry asked for ideas for better naming
the several states of write access.
There are some tentative thoughts, I like to offer.
Larry Wall wrote:
That being said, in writing the Perl 6 grammar I keep running into the
need for rw context variables. I'm getting tired of writing things
