Re: Required whitespace issues.

2004-12-05 Thread Jon Shapcott
concerns to: > "The longest-token rule needs to be mentioned in S03, and explained in a > future perlop.pod." For sure, stating it clearly and unambiguously will probably help those new to programming, and maybe help those who want to extend perl 6 by defining new grammer rule

Re: Non-flow-control logical tests

2004-05-20 Thread Jon Shapcott
be nearly as much of an optimization for a virtual machine, but an aggressively optimizing compiler would make constructs like the following just that extra bit faster: if ( foo < bar ) baz++; -- Jon Shapcott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "This is the Space Age, and we are Here To Go" - Wlliam S. Burroughs

Re: [perl #29653] segf oiazerg iozerg

2004-05-17 Thread Jon Shapcott
ther than the dollar character, "$". Well, sometimes they don't, and it's usually down to assuming US English is used in all English locales. -- Jon Shapcott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "This is the Space Age, and we are Here To Go" - Wlliam S. Burroughs

Re: Language Interoperability

2004-04-07 Thread Jon Shapcott
times called propotype-based instead). Self, the archetypical delegation-based langugage, permits objects being used as part of an inheritance tree to be modified at runtime. I guess this matters little as far as the internals go, but it would be a shame to cut out a language as classic as Self, especially a