Re: .NET

2001-05-03 Thread John Barnette
Dave Storrs said: > On 3 May 2001, Ilya Martynov wrote: > > >> You can serialize/deserilize object with Storable > > >> > > >> $foo = new Bar > > >> store_fd $foo, \*SOCKET; > > >> > > >> and on the other end > > >> > > >> $foo = retrieve_fd \*SOCKET; > > >> $foo->bar; > > >> > > >> It will work i

RE: RFC 357 (v1) Perl should use XML for documentation instead of POD

2000-10-02 Thread John Barnette
Garrett Goebel (Today): > Horror of horrors: why not support both? Long live: TMTOWTDI. If XML > documentation fails to thrive, cut it from Perl 6.1. If both thrive, keep > 'em. As everyone has said XML can be converted to pod and vice versa. Pod > tools could be made to coexist with XML. But why

Re: RFC 109 (v1) Less line noise - let's get rid of @%

2000-08-16 Thread John Barnette
> > > No, it's not. Where are we taught this? It's a myth. > > > The punctuation imposes context on the variable expression. > > > $foo[0] > > > accesses an array. Where's the "@"? > > > > It accesses an *element* of the array, which is a scalar. This scalar > > might be blessed into a

Re: RFC 109 (v1) Less line noise - let's get rid of @%

2000-08-16 Thread John Barnette
John Porter wrote: > Russ Allbery wrote: > > $args = 'first second third'; > > @args = split (' ', $args); > > my $i = 0; > > %args = map { $_ => ++$i } @args; > > > > This is very Perlish to me; the punctuation is part of the variable name > > and disambiguates nicely. > > No, it