Re: Differential Subscripts

On Saturday, 9. August 2008 04:41:46 John M. Dlugosz wrote: > Is this magic known to the parser at a low level, or is it possible to > define your own postcircumfix operators that interact with the > interpretation of the argument? My interpretation is that there is a Whatever type that most of th

Re: Some details of function return captures

HaloO, On Saturday, 9. August 2008 01:32:35 John M. Dlugosz wrote: > TSa Thomas.Sandlass-at-barco.com |Perl 6| wrote: > > If such a ReturnCapture could also be > > preliminary of some kind, then lvalue subs could be lazily resumed when > > the rvalue comes in. > > Can you elaborate on that? I don

Allowing '-' in identifiers: what's the motivation?

E.g. see : sub bar { return 100; } sub foo { 50;} sub foo-bar { return rand(50); } if (foo - bar != foo-bar) { print "Haha!\n"; }

Re: Allowing '-' in identifiers: what's the motivation?

At a minimum, there are more multi-word identifiers than there are statements involving subtraction. Further, '-' is basic, while all of [_A-Z] are not. Ergo, a multi-word-identifier is easier to type than a multi_word_identifier or a multiWordIdentifier. The older I get, the more I like Cob

Re: Some details of function return captures

TSa (Thomas Sandlaß) thomas-at-sandlass.de |Perl 6| wrote: ... my $x = |$obj.foo(1,2); #4 to keep the ReturnCapture, and call it later either explicitly $x.resume(3); or implicitly $x = 3; Hope that helps, TSa. Interesting idea, as an alternative to get/set methods like

Re: Allowing '-' in identifiers: what's the motivation?

Austin Hastings Austin_Hastings-at-Yahoo.com |Perl 6| wrote: At a minimum, there are more multi-word identifiers than there are statements involving subtraction. Further, '-' is basic, while all of [_A-Z] are not. Ergo, a multi-word-identifier is easier to type than a multi_word_identifier or

Class attribute declaration question : our $!var

our $.var — class attribute, accessor, inheritable. our $!var — class attribute, no accessor, inheritable. If the second form has no accessor, how can it be inheritable?

class member declaration catalog

I just put together as part of my analysis and documentation effort. I'll link the "meanings" to more extensive treatments. Did I miss any *possible* combination? --John