Re using perl.com articles in your Perl 6 wiki documentation, were you
also planning on adding (links to) Larry Wall's annual "State of the
Onion" talks? They contain a wealth of great language design
philosophy for people wanting to learn about what sorts of things
motivated the exceedingly intere
Christian Mueller wrote:
> i don't know the actually state in the discussion about multiline
> comments, but i would propose an idea.. a combination of POD's = and the
> traditional route char...
Perl 6 already has a robust system for multiline and embedded
comments, as described in S02 under "Whi
On 30/12/2007, Jonathan Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The only wart
> is that '#( ... )' cannot begin at the very start of a line; but it's
> easy enough to get around that restriction - say, with some leading
> whitespace.
Thanks for the reply - can you please what is the problem with having
first of all thanks to Jonathan Scott Duff, you will be named in the
scribes section of the p6doc
documentation too and
to chromatic: i will name the authors normally like in POD and make a
link to perl.com/p6
section in the p6doc where sources of all docs are named.
Conrad Schneiker: about o
Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
> On 30/12/2007, Jonathan Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The only wart
> > is that '#( ... )' cannot begin at the very start of a line; but it's
> > easy enough to get around that restriction - say, with some leading
> > whitespace.
>
> Thanks for the reply - can you ple
On Dec 30, 2007 6:10 PM, Jonathan Lang wrote:
>
> Short answer: the compiler has no way of knowing whether the
> programmer wants an embedded comment or a line comment; so instead of
> guessing, it requires the programmer to disambiguate.
>
[...snip...]
>
> # if ($test)
> # {
> .say;
>
Whitespace is significant in many places. Even in some of the corners
of Perl 5. Perl 6 has a different set of rules, and it will take some
getting used to, but the rules are designed to let you do things as
naturally as possible.This, for instance, works fine:
my @values =
# (1,2,3) # old
Offer Kaye wrote:
> #( commenting out a large code section, yey for Perl6 multi-line comments...
>if ($foo) {
> print "...or not :(\n"
>}
> ) # this should have been the end of the embedded comment
...and since it wasn't, you probably should have chosen other brackets such as:
#[
>> Thanks for the reply - can you please what is the problem with having
it in the beginning of the line?
>
> Short answer: the compiler has no way of knowing whether the
> programmer wants an embedded comment or a line comment; so instead of
guessing, it requires the programmer to disambiguate.
>
On Dec 30, 2007 8:10 AM, Jonathan Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Let's say that the programmer in question wants to comment out all but
> the third line; so he prefixes everything else with '#':
>
> #if ($test)
> #{
>.say;
> #} else {
> # .doit;
> #}
>
> What the writer _wants_ this t
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