A number of languages have a with ... construct that's intended to
cut down on repetitive typing,
I hope I will be excused for dragging in the indecency, but it might be
worth looking at the concepts COBOL used to mitigate its verbosity, (e.g.
types defined in a structure that get inherited
John M. Dlugosz and I have both replied to whiteringmoon's query, so I
don't think anyone else need to. (If he's genuine, we don't want to
bombard him with multiple replies, and if not, let's not give out too much
spambait.)
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Just out of idle curiousity, (and so I can explain it when training), I
would like to know the original motivation for string/number arithmetic.
My guess is automatic generation of predictable filenames. Am I anywhere
close?
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On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 04:28:36PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote:
Has the err operator, as a low-precidence version of //, been removed?
Yes.
It could be recycled as a fuzzy Boolean, returning a fractional value
between +1 and -1, indicating the confidence with which the result is
offerred.
The Prelude could be helpful for training. I've been trying to work out a
logical path into Perl 6 for quite some time, not least because it's been
a moving target. If there's a set of definitions that a computer can
follow, humans should be able to move along that path too.
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