Re: Re: Perl6 -- what is in a name?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The third group that won't be happy with Perl 6 are those who program > in a limited subset of Perl - so limited, in fact, that they will > most likely be bitten by minor changes in the language, without the > benefit of experiencing the major improvements that those changes > allowed. These people are, by and large, not professional > programmers, but folks for whom Perl is a simple and powerful tool in > their jobs, and it will drive them crazy when their toolkits and > recipes stop working. I should know, I support multitudes of these > people. Just out of curiosity, what percentage of Perl users would you say fall into this category? And should follow-ups to this go, perhaps, to [EMAIL PROTECTED]? John A
Re: Re: RFC: new logical operator
"Randal L. Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sam> No, "but" is syntactically equivalent to "and" in English. It Sam> just implies that the second condition is not generally what Sam> you'd expect if the first was true. Randal> Maybe in the interest of huffman encoding, we could make Randal> it "even_though". :) Or we could compromise on "despite". But (sigh) when I first looked at this proposal, I thought, "Now what the heck is he trying to say that 'and' doesn't cover?" Is it really syntactic sugar if it's confusing at first glance? John A
Ex4 smart match question
Does one of these items not belong?
>From Exegesis 4:
This new turbo-charged 'smart match' operator will also work on arrays, hashes and
lists:
if @array =~ $elem {...}# true if @array contains $elem
if $key =~ %hash {...} # true if %hash{$key}
if $value =~ (1..10) {...} # true if $value is in the list
if $value =~ ('a',/\s/,7) {...} # true if $value is eq to 'a'
# or if $value contains whitespace
# or if $value is == to 7
It's very cool--but why is it $key =~ %hash but $value =~ @array rather than one way
or the other?
John A
They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it.
---Gracie Allen
