--- Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Larry wrote:
Possibly we might even extend the notion of hash to any junk.
%hash = 1 | 2 | 3;
So you're suggestion that a normal hash is a junction of pairs???
Damian Conway admits: Everything in Perl6 is 'Junk'
Who can't see *this*
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Dave Storrs wrote:
: In the Re: Wh[ie]ther Infix Superposition ops thread
:
: On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
:
: But given a decent Collection hierarchy:
:
: my $seen = Set.new($start,$finish);
:
: for - $next {
: print $next unless $next =~
Dave Storrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In the Re: Wh[ie]ther Infix Superposition ops thread
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
But given a decent Collection hierarchy:
my $seen = Set.new($start,$finish);
for - $next {
print $next unless $next =~ $seen;
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Personally, I'd love to see something like the whole Smalltalk
Collection hierarchy available complete with Bags, Sets,
Dictionaries, OrderedCollections and the whole deal. I note, for
instance that Christian Lemburg has implemented Set::Object, and
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
:It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in
: possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite.
: -- Jane Austen?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in possession
of a rich syntax must be in need
On 30 Oct 2002 at 11:09, Larry Wall wrote:
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
:It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in
: possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite.
: -- Jane Austen?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Markus Laire wrote:
: And you could always have something else as a backup for those
: unfortunates who can't use «+» - like ^[+]
:
: What are the good reasons not to use «» ?
It would force everyone to get their act together with respect to Unicode.
Oh, wait, that's a
Larry wrote:
The set features are a side effect of junctions, just as they're a side
effect of hashes. An any junction might well be implemented underneath
as a hash without values.
Yep.
Possibly we might even extend the notion of hash to any junk.
%hash = 1 | 2 | 3;
So you're