Re: Opcode Dispatch

2001-07-28 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Sunday 29 July 2001 12:55 am, Doofus wrote: > Dan, et al, > When we say that each opcode handler will return the next opcode, we > really mean the location within the opcode stream, and not the opcode > itself, right? Nebbermime. RTFM. It's in PDD 5. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTE

TPC P6 slides

2001-07-28 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
For those of you who have slides from Perl 6-related discussions up on the net somewhere, can you slide me a URL once things get established? I'd like to get them in the summary for all to marvel at. (Oh, BTW, nice meeting all of you that I met.) -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Opcode Dispatch

2001-07-28 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
Dan, et al, When we say that each opcode handler will return the next opcode, we really mean the location within the opcode stream, and not the opcode itself, right? We are also expecting all (or most) of the opcode handlers themselves to be pluggable, right? I'm working on some differe

Perl DOC BOF

2001-07-28 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
Okay, fun's over. Back to work. There was a Perl Documentation BOF that was scheduled for 6:30 Friday; however, it seems none of the folks who showed up actually called it, and none of the folks who called it actually showed up. (Or showed up fairly late - after I had already left.) What wa

RE: if then else otherwise ...

2001-07-28 Thread Sterin, Ilya
> -Original Message- > From: raptor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 12:32 PM > To: Sterin, Ilya; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: if then else otherwise ... > > > I've/m never used/ing "elseif" ( i hate it :") from the time I > have to edit > a perl script of

Re: if then else otherwise ...

2001-07-28 Thread David Grove
Oh boo hoo. Might I suggest a good introductory Perl book? p On Saturday 28 July 2001 12:32, raptor wrote: > I've/m never used/ing "elseif" ( i hate it :") from the time I have to > edit a perl script of other person that had 25 pages non-stop if-elsif > sequence) ... never mind there is two c

Re: if then else otherwise ...

2001-07-28 Thread raptor
I've/m never used/ing "elseif" ( i hate it :") from the time I have to edit a perl script of other person that had 25 pages non-stop if-elsif sequence) ... never mind there is two conditions in your example... of coruse i've think of this just like a shortcut nothing special ... later on : $x =

RE: if then else otherwise ...

2001-07-28 Thread Sterin, Ilya
What's the point, you can accomplish the same with if/elsif/else. Maybe I'm not understanding this correctly, but if (cond) {} elsif (cond) {} else {} Ilya > -Original Message- > From: raptor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 9:35 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > S

if then else otherwise ...

2001-07-28 Thread raptor
hi, we have <=> and 'cmp' operators but we don't have the conditional constroct to use better their result : May be forthcomming switch will solve this in some way, but isn't it better to have shortcut like this : if (cond) { } else {} otherwise {} i.e. if cond == 1 then 'then-block' if cond