I just want to say it seems appropriate that this discussion of how
Perl can look like Morse Code is happening in the thread I first started,
since I was active in ham radio from 1970-95 (mostly CW, or Morse Code
to you non-hams).
And consider it a blessing that Perl can look like Morse Code,
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 10:39:01AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
Now we just need to make ... ___ ... mean something exceptional.
___ ... ___ is valid. :)
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Larry Wall wrote:
Now we just need to make ... ___ ... mean something exceptional.
Ref: http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg02873.html )
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Simon Cozens writes:
: Hey, that would make _ _ __ legal Perl code. Abigail, Abigail!
Now we just need to make ... ___ ... mean something exceptional.
: (I still prefer ~, but acknowledge that this is just bikeshed painting.)
Bikesheds need to be painted occasionally.
Larry
: Hey, that would make _ _ __ legal Perl code. Abigail, Abigail!
Now we just need to make ... ___ ... mean something exceptional.
Just download the Bleach.pm module from the CPAN.
It includes Morse.pm.
Damian
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:46:48PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
And I'm tired of hearing the argument that Perl programmers can't get
used to a different operator for concatenation. I know better--after
all, Perl is probably what got them used to . in the first place. If
you can teach dogs to
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 01:45:02AM -0700, Damien Neil wrote:
I think many of us are resigned to losing . for concatination; I know
I can live with that. I just don't want to have this result in ~, ^,
or any other C-style punctuation operator getting renamed.
That's my position. I'd rather
Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
I'd rather it be cc or _ (I didn't like the underscore at first,
but it's grown on me a little)
Comparing ~ and _ to available editors markup marks, _ is closer
to the sideways () that an editor might use to indicate that two words
should be joined together. Tilde
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 18:19:40 GMT, Fred Heutte wrote:
Yes, I know ~ is the bitwise negation operator. Have you EVER used it?
Yes. A lot.
But there is no conflict. ~ is currently just an unary operator, while
your use would be as a binary operator (are those the correct terms?).
For example, in
Bart Lateur's response summarizes well what I've heard so far
from responses both to the list and privately:
(1) Yes, ~ *is* somewhat used in its current role as the bitwise
negation (complement) operator.
(2) No, that doesn't appear to overlap my proposal for its use
as a successor
Nathan Wiger writes:
: Now, it may be that all the We should use . people are just keeping
: quiet, or think it's obvious why this is a benefit, but I'm unconvinced.
: Again, I'm open-minded, but the only argument I've really heard is to
: make Perl more Java/Python-like. This doesn't sway me at
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 03:35:24AM +, Fred Heutte wrote:
Bart Lateur's response summarizes well what I've heard so far
from responses both to the list and privately:
(1) Yes, ~ *is* somewhat used in its current role as the bitwise
negation (complement) operator.
(2) No, that
Graham Barr wrote:
You don't get it.
We are not looking for a single char to replace -
We WANT to use .
With complete respect here, I'm still not convinced this is true.
Specifically, what the value of we is. It hardly sounds like
everyone's united on this point. In fact, I've counted
It seems to me that ~ relates to forces (operators, functions and methods)
more than to atoms (scalars), so to speak. It's the curve of binding Perl
at work here.
So why not leave . alone and have ~ substitute for -
$mydsn-Sql($mysqlstmt . $moresql) ;
$mydsn~Sql($mysqlstmt . $moresql) ;
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 06:19:40PM +, Fred Heutte wrote:
: It seems to me that ~ relates to forces (operators, functions and methods)
: more than to atoms (scalars), so to speak. It's the curve of binding Perl
: at work here.
:
: So why not leave . alone and have ~ substitute for -
:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 06:19:40PM +, Fred Heutte wrote:
It seems to me that ~ relates to forces (operators, functions and methods)
more than to atoms (scalars), so to speak. It's the curve of binding Perl
at work here.
So why not leave . alone and have ~ substitute for -
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