Re: Front end for Perl

On Tue 19 Mar, James Taylor wrote: > > If you find any bugs or suboptimal bits, please let me know, > I'm here to learn after all. Whoops! Found one already. @answer needs declaring so that people can run it under "use strict" if they wish. I suggest changing line 44 to say: my (@answer, $list

Re: Front end for Perl

On Tue 19 Mar, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:33:16PM +, James Taylor wrote: > > > > On Mon 18 Mar, Geoff Youngs wrote: > > > > > > And the evaluator on dbl-click also makes sense. > > > > You might consider using the list context version though > > Or making select

Re: Front end for Perl

On Mon 18 Mar, Geoff Youngs wrote: > > And the evaluator on dbl-click also makes sense. You might consider using the list context version though because it can be used to test things in both list and scalar context (by putting 'scalar' as the first word) whereas the scalar context version cannot

Re: Front end for Perl

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> James Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun 17 Mar, Geoff Youngs wrote: > > You could try > Wow, that works very well, thanks. > Aww shucks, did you knock that up just for little ol' me? It's so

Front end for Perl

It looks as though my slightly naive query started something; thanks, everyone. -- __ __ __ __ __ ___ _ |__||__)/ __/ \|\ ||_ | / Acorn StrongArm Risc_PC | || \\__/\__/| \||__ | /...Internet access for all Acorn RISC machines __

Re: Front end for Perl

On Sun 17 Mar, Geoff Youngs wrote: > > You could try Wow, that works very well, thanks. Aww shucks, did you knock that up just for little ol' me? -- James Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Based in Southam, Cheltenham, UK. PGP key available ID: 3F

Re: Front end for Perl

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> James Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmmm, I can't help feeling there ought to be a way to arrange for all three > situations (double clicking, F12 star prompt, and task window star prompt) > to work smoothly. I suppose all it would need is someone to

Re: Front end for Perl

Fiddle-dee-dee! Having just chastised someone for posting AND emailing, I find myself having to do just that because of... well, shall we say "wibbly finger syndrome". Sorry David. On Sat 16 Mar, David H Wild wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > James Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: Front end for Perl

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They use OS_ReadLine rather than the operator so > that I can use the history and editing features of the line > editor module. EvalLoopS evaluates things in scalar context > and EvalLoopL evaluates them in list context

Re: Front end for Perl

In article , Roger Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I recently downloaded a Risc OS version of Python. This comes with a > > "front end" program which allows you to type Python commands and > > returns the appropriate action. > > > > Would it be

Re: Front end for Perl

On Sat 16 Mar, Rafiq Ismail (ADMIN) wrote: > > I've always used perl -de 0 to set up a debugger session in interactive > mode, under linux. Unfortunately, I never got around to setting perl up > on my archie, so I'm not sure if this will work for you. Yes, it seems to work. Good suggestion, th

Re: Front end for Perl

I've always used perl -de 0 to set up a debugger session in interactive mode, under linux. Unfortunately, I never got around to setting perl up on my archie, so I'm not sure if this will work for you. The debugger becomes an interpreter through which you may then test out blocks of code at the c

Re: Front end for Perl

On Fri 15 Mar, David H Wild wrote: > I recently downloaded a Risc OS version of Python. This comes with a > "front end" program which allows you to type Python commands and returns > the appropriate action. > > Would it be possible for a similar program to be produced for Perl, please? I haven't

Re: Front end for Perl

On Fri 15 Mar, David H Wild wrote: > I recently downloaded a Risc OS version of Python. This comes with a "front > end" program which allows you to type Python commands and returns the > appropriate action. > > Would it be possible for a similar program to be produced for Perl, please? What exac

Front end for Perl

I recently downloaded a Risc OS version of Python. This comes with a "front end" program which allows you to type Python commands and returns the appropriate action. Would it be possible for a similar program to be produced for Perl, please? -- __ __ __ __ __ ___