Author: larry
Date: Tue Feb 5 09:55:29 2008
New Revision: 14501
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod
doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod
doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod
Log:
Added named placeholders using $:foo twigil; idea from cognominal++:
Placeholder subs can now also autoadd [EMAIL
+++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.podTue Feb 5 09:55:29 2008
@@ -2791,7 +2791,7 @@
are insufficient for defining the pecking order of code. Note that
you can bind to either a bare block or a pointy block. Binding to a
bare block conveniently leaves the topic in C$_, so the final form
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:42:35AM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote:
: +++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.podTue Feb 5 09:55:29 2008
: @@ -2791,7 +2791,7 @@
: are insufficient for defining the pecking order of code. Note that
: you can bind to either a bare block or a pointy block. Binding to
Larry Wall wrote:
: Is it forbidden to use placeholder parameters in conjunction with
: my? Or would it simply not do anything useful? I ask because Do
: what I mean would seem to imply that 'my Dog $^foo' would specify
: $^foo's type as 'Dog'. Though if you start doing too much of that,
:
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 11:57:37AM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote:
: Larry Wall wrote:
: : Is it forbidden to use placeholder parameters in conjunction with
: : my? Or would it simply not do anything useful? I ask because Do
: : what I mean would seem to imply that 'my Dog $^foo' would specify
:
--- Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Besides $^_ is just uglier than anything else I've seen today...
lol -- I thought of it as a rather cute peeking-wink with a cauliflower
ear, but that's probably much more cutesiness than we want to encourage
in our language design.
