How about 'contingent blocks', because they are contingent on some
event, without having to use the word 'event'.
Richard
TSa wrote:
HaloO,
Larry Wall wrote:
Hmm, maybe control event blocks and control events, then...
I would call them flow blocks because this is where they are
called and
HaloO,
Larry Wall wrote:
Hmm, maybe control event blocks and control events, then...
I would call them flow blocks because this is where they are
called and what they influence: the flow of execution. This
nicely matches the flow charts used to describe the control
flow.
The other term I
JMD Consider the words that may be used to introduce a block for a special
JMD purpose, like
JMD
JMD BEGIN
JMD END
JMD INIT
JMD CATCH
JMD etc.
JMD
JMD What do you call those?
Well, lessee. The Common Lisp spec calls them situations in the
definition of (eval-when)...
JMD They are not even
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 2:16 AM, Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
JMD Consider the words that may be used to introduce a block for a special
JMD purpose, like
JMD
JMD BEGIN
JMD END
JMD INIT
JMD CATCH
JMD etc.
JMD
JMD What do you call those?
Well, lessee. The
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Chas. Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It looks like they already have a name in S04: Closure traits*.
* http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/syn/S04.html#Closure_traits
I don't know, it seems like any value might happen to both be a
closure and have traits,
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Chas. Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It looks like they already have a name in S04: Closure traits*.
* http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/syn/S04.html#Closure_traits
I don't
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:31 PM, John M. Dlugosz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Consider the words that may be used to introduce a block for a special
purpose, like
BEGIN
END
INIT
CATCH
etc.
What do you call those? They are not even special named blocks because
that is not the block
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 08:52:38AM -0700, jerry gay wrote:
: On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:31 PM, John M. Dlugosz
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Consider the words that may be used to introduce a block for a special
: purpose, like
:
: BEGIN
: END
: INIT
: CATCH
: etc.
:
: What do you
Mark J. Reed markjreed-at-mail.com |Perl 6| wrote:
Now you've lost me. I was pretty sure that was the block name. AIUI,
you can give arbitrary names to any block, and these names function
the same way (i.e. can be used in flow control statements), but they
also happen to control when the block
As I read it, the original question was about the actual keyword -
e.g. the word BEGIN - as distinct from the block it's attached to.
Though I agree we need a general term for the latter, the name event
block seems to imply that BEGIN et al are events, which might be ok
or might cause confusion
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 01:35:57PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
: As I read it, the original question was about the actual keyword -
: e.g. the word BEGIN - as distinct from the block it's attached to.
: Though I agree we need a general term for the latter, the name event
: block seems to imply that
On Apr 10, 2008, at 13:29 , John M. Dlugosz wrote:
I might have misremembered, but i thought labels were followed by a
colon in Perl 6. A quick scan of the docs...
It is illegal for a provisional subroutine call to be followed by a
colon postfix, since such a colon is allowed only on an
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 04:38:27PM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On Apr 10, 2008, at 13:29 , John M. Dlugosz wrote:
I might have misremembered, but i thought labels were followed by a
colon in Perl 6. A quick scan of the docs...
It is illegal for a provisional subroutine call to
I've consolidated all the discussion into one reply:
The perldocs call them Five specially named code blocks, The Camel
names them individually (e.g. BEGIN block). How about phase blocks? They
control in what phase of compilation/runtime the code runs in.
I don't know, phase sounds too
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 03:41:19PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote:
I've consolidated all the discussion into one reply:
The perldocs call them Five specially named code blocks, The Camel
names them individually (e.g. BEGIN block). How about phase blocks? They
control in what phase of
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, lessee. The Common Lisp spec calls them situations in the
definition of (eval-when)...
That's not bad.
Oh, sure, ignore it when I first said it, but let John quote me and
allasudden it's notable.. :-)
An
From: Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:00:53 -0700
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 03:41:19PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote:
Well, lessee. The Common Lisp spec calls them situations in the
definition of (eval-when)...
That's not bad.
FWIW, eval-when only
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but tag
for the keyword feels right to me. We could
On Apr 10, 2008, at 18:58 , Bob Rogers wrote:
From: Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:00:53 -0700
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 03:41:19PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote:
Well, lessee. The Common Lisp spec calls them situations in the
definition of (eval-when)...
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the other hand, that may be the answer right there: when-blocks.
We have those already: given...when.
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My suggestion:
consequential blocks
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On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Juerd Waalboer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My suggestion:
consequential blocks
...which would make other blocks inconsequential?
Nuh-uh.
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On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 1:31 AM, John M. Dlugosz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Consider the words that may be used to introduce a block for a special
purpose, like
BEGIN
END
INIT
CATCH
etc.
What do you call those? They are not even special named blocks because
that is not the block
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