Re: subroutines and python status

2003-07-31 Thread Brent Royal-Gordon
Michal Wallace: > I can store all my subroutine definitions in > a list or something and then dump them out > after the "__main__" routine. Is that the > right approach? It seems strange to me, > but I'm new at this. That seems to be the way to do it, speaking as someone who's working on a Perl 5-

Re: Some thoughts WRT exceptions, events, and threads

2003-06-28 Thread Brent Royal-Gordon
(I apologize profusely for the formatting--I'm writing this on a rather primitive webmail system.) Disclaimer: this is all from possibly faulty memory, except where it's pure speculation. Leopold Toetsch: I'd like to layout some thougts, which get quite dim, when it comes to threads. So there a

Re: nice2haveit

2001-07-14 Thread Brent Royal-Gordon
> > $Foo::{'$bar'} = \$baz; # Alias $Foo::bar to $baz > > Are we back to "globals only"? What about lexical aliases? Something > like: > > my \%foo = \%bar; I've always wondered why the backslash operator wasn't lvaluable. (IIRC, C++'s & operator is semi-lvaluable.) IM(V)HO