Re: Continuations for fun and profit

ratchpads which are related to the continuation. It doesn't just save all data generally or $foo (from the example) would never really get decremented. Ted -- Ted Ashton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | From the Tom Swifty collection: Southern Adventist University| "The bank doesn'

Re: Apoc 4: The skip keyword

t; } > > Does anyone agree that `nobreak' reads much better than `skip'? "skip" was uncomfortable when I read it (I at first took it to mean "skip over the following" rather than "skip to the following"), but I find "nobreak" also a bit st

Re: Apoc4: The loop keyword

outer". What's the chance that it could be considered so? Ted -- Ted Ashton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University == There is n

Re: Apropos of nothing...

Thus it was written in the epistle of Piers Cawley, > In the following code fragment, what context is foo() in? > > @ary[0] = foo() Scalar, I would think. Just my guess, Ted -- Ted Ashton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | From the Tom Swifty collection: Southern Adventist U

Re: if3 then else otherwise ...

terpreters. So, in the it coul parse Python and, wait for it, produce bytecode which would run on the Python interpreter--except more slowly than actually using Python ;-). Ted -- Ted Ashton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), In

Re: if3 then else otherwise ...

ted: sub if3 ($&&&) { return &{$_[1]} unless $_[0]; return &{$_[2]} if $_[0] < 0; return &{$_[3]}; } gives the functionality. A little more research (and perhaps a quick coversation with Damian Conway) shoud result in the desired syntax. Ted -- Ted Ashton ([EMAIL P

Re: Larry's Apocalypse 1

t way, "the #! thing" would suffice for normal code and one could just perl6 -e 'whatever;' for one-liners. Ted -- Ted Ashton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University == Mathema

Re: Really auto autoloaded modules

e core functionality, such as time() or print() will be on the list by default any any mechanism which adds to the list can fail on conflict. I don't think we want a mechanism which, when I type parm() (meaning to have typed param()) goes out and searches CPAN, downl

Re: OT: pronouncing "www" (was: Re: ... as a term)

uot;Surf to perl dot org and read the new ..." > > =Austin Just to be absolutely certain, could you say that again, using www.perl.com as the example? Thanks, Ted -- Ted Ashton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University ===

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

double-punctuation form ($$ and so on) and use instead the ${$} form, it would be an equal number of characters and fewer curlies (which, I think, is a win). Ted -- Ted Ashton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University =

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

icular solution, I agree that that is confusing and ugly. Even once I got my brain around what it all means, it still looks downright ugly as far as I'm concerned. Anyone have solutions to that? Ted -- Ted Ashton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University =