Hi All,
Just out of curiosity, in Perl 6 can a subroutine call itself?
-T
I am fighting with a broken Net:FTP::rmdir in Perl 5 that
will not recuse as advertised (it is very intermittent).
And I can not use Net::Ftp in Perl 6 as it is hosed and
so is the Inline.
And it seems that Perl 5 does
Any decent programming language supports self-recursion, where a subroutine may
invoke itself. Perl 6 explicitly also supports this, and even has a special
keyword for a routine to refer to itself without knowing its own name,
especially useful for anonymous subs; I don't remember that keyword
I think you're looking for &?ROUTINE. &?BLOCK is also related.
https://docs.perl6.org/language/variables#index-entry-%26%3FROUTINE
On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 12:51 AM, Darren Duncan
wrote:
> Any decent programming language supports self-recursion, where a
> subroutine may invoke itself. Perl 6 ex
On 2017-02-04 12:34 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
Hi All,
Just out of curiosity, in Perl 6 can a subroutine call itself?
-T
I am fighting with a broken Net:FTP::rmdir in Perl 5 that
will not recuse as advertised (it is very intermittent).
And I can not use Net::Ftp in Perl 6 as it is hosed and
s
On 02/04/2017 01:09 AM, Brent Laabs wrote:
I think you're looking for &?ROUTINE. &?BLOCK is also related.
https://docs.perl6.org/language/variables#index-entry-%26%3FROUTINE
Hi Brent,
Awesome reference on variables! Thank you! (I copied it down.)
-T
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Havi
