Re: endian

2020-01-23 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 11:51 AM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users mailto:perl6-us...@perl.org>> wrote: Hi All, This is just a trivia question. Does anyone know if the actual data stored in Raku variables is little endian or big endian? -T On 2020-01-23 09:07, Paul Procacci w

Re: endian

2020-01-23 Thread Paul Procacci
endianess is dictate by the cpu. If I store the value 4 into some memory address, the storage of and retrieval thereof is controlled by the cpu. On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 11:51 AM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > This is just a trivia question. > > Does anyo

endian

2020-01-23 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
Hi All, This is just a trivia question. Does anyone know if the actual data stored in Raku variables is little endian or big endian? -T

Re: I need syntax to sub declare return a hash and an array

2020-01-23 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 2020-01-23 06:15, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: Larry Wall once warned that the "return..." syntax may be removed at some point. "return..." is a common idiom in many programming languages, and keeping it around might help programmers ease their transition to raku/perl6. So I'd hate to see "retu

Re: I need syntax to sub declare return a hash and an array

2020-01-23 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 08:15 Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > >> Larry Wall once warned that the "return..." syntax may be removed at > some point. > > "return..." is a common idiom in many programming languages, and > > keeping it around might help programmers ease their transition to > > raku/perl

Re: I need syntax to sub declare return a hash and an array

2020-01-23 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
>> Larry Wall once warned that the "return..." syntax may be removed at some >> point. > "return..." is a common idiom in many programming languages, and > keeping it around might help programmers ease their transition to > raku/perl6. So I'd hate to see "return" go away--at least for the > forese

Re: I need syntax to sub declare return a hash and an array

2020-01-23 Thread William Michels via perl6-users
On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 5:00 AM Tom Browder wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 22:16 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > wrote: >> >> On 2020-01-20 20:09, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: >> > On 2020-01-20 19:55, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > > ... >> >> > I think this is it: >> > >> > >