RE: Operators that keep going and going...

2004-03-14 Thread Matt Creenan
It just goes to show.. the perl community has already thought of everything.. -Original Message- From: Luke Palmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 12:41 PM To: Carissa Cc: Perl Language Subject: Re: Operators that keep going and going... Carissa writes: > The oth

Re: Return with no expression

2004-08-23 Thread Matt Creenan
I've always thought that particular bit of sugar was rather dangerous. I'd even prefer a longhand: $foo either 0 or split(); to the troublesome double-usage of C<::> I think I'd prefer that as well, since it has the advantage of not having to use the evil shift key. Though i don't think it s

Re: Return with no expression

2004-08-23 Thread Matt Creenan
I think I'd prefer that as well, since it has the advantage of not having to use the evil shift key. Though i don't think it stands out as much as it should. I hate to reply to my own message, but... How about $foo??split()!!0; for a touch of craziness. Or is !! not usable? Actually, just igno

Re: Closure/block/sub multiplier /// Win32 module for Perl6

2005-04-20 Thread Matt Creenan
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 13:00:01 -0400, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2. Is anyone working on making a Win32 module for Perl6 yet, or porting over the p5 one? If not, I may be willing to make one, along with some help from friends. If I do, does anyone have any pointers or suggestions for me wh

Re: -X's auto-(un)quoting?

2005-04-23 Thread Matt Creenan
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:55:17 -0400, Mark A. Biggar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After some further thought (and a phone talk with Larry), I now think that all of these counted-level solutions (even my proposal of _2.foo(), etc.) are a bad idea. They have a similar problems to constructs like "next 5;

Re: -X's auto-(un)quoting?

2005-04-23 Thread Matt Creenan
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 14:21:06 -0400, Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matt Creenan skribis 2005-04-23 14:19 (-0400): Hm.. didn't really think of that. Though, how often would that really happen? Often -- this is exactly the same problem as Python has with its significant indenting

Re: available operator characters

2005-05-06 Thread Matt Creenan
On Sat, 07 May 2005 01:12:02 -0400, Mark A. Biggar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually if we define |...| at all, I'd prefer it mean abs(), its usual mathmatical meaning. I agree. I think || is just confusing. I thought about $blockname <= { ... }, but <= is obviously taken, as is <== So here's

Re: available operator characters

2005-05-07 Thread Matt Creenan
On Sat, 07 May 2005 01:47:08 -0400, Matt Creenan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So here's some random ideas that probably make no sense ($ can be optional.. don't know) *snip* That brings me to another idea. Is $_ as an array used? @_? This relates back to the discussion on topic

Re: Perl development server

2005-05-23 Thread Matt Creenan
On Mon, 23 May 2005 14:58:20 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How about "zephyr". No! That's the name of a project I'm working on dang it ;)

Re: My presentation on last weekend

2005-06-02 Thread Matt Creenan
On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 13:11:34 -0400, BÁRTHÁZI András <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I just would like to share it with you. We had a weekend at the lake Balaton on the last weekend, where I had a talk about Perl 6. The guys liked it (the girls had sunbath during the event :), and one of them