Re: 6-on-5 and read only aliasing

2006-12-15 Thread David Landgren
Nicholas Clark wrote: [...] Suggestions for a better name for BIND welcome. 4 letters or fewer. An alias, eh? That's like a nickname, isn't it? Well, since you're asking, I propose NICK Nicholas Clark PS blead source is at rsync://public.activestate.com/perl-current/ -- Much of the

Re: 6-on-5 and read only aliasing

2006-12-13 Thread Kevin Z
VINE On 12/13/06, Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For the effort to implement a Pugs backend to run Perl 6 on Perl 5, one part that was looking tricky was how to make read only aliases of read-write values. Data::Bind fakes the functionality with magic, but I think that it's going to

6-on-5 and read only aliasing

2006-12-13 Thread Nicholas Clark
For the effort to implement a Pugs backend to run Perl 6 on Perl 5, one part that was looking tricky was how to make read only aliases of read-write values. Data::Bind fakes the functionality with magic, but I think that it's going to have limitations with corner cases. The better solution appears