Larry Wall wrote:
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 11:49:12PM -0600, Rod Adams wrote:
: I haven't gotten a solid answer on when and how Perl will autogenerate
: methods from subs.
In general I don't think of it as autogeneration at all, but as
failover to a different dispatcher. I can't think of a case
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 11:49:12PM -0600, Rod Adams wrote:
: I haven't gotten a solid answer on when and how Perl will autogenerate
: methods from subs.
In general I don't think of it as autogeneration at all, but as
failover to a different dispatcher. I can't think of a case where an
ordinary
Luke Palmer wrote:
Rod Adams writes:
In S29, I currently have C as:
multi sub grep (Any|Junction $test : [EMAIL PROTECTED]) returns List {
gather {
for @values -> $x {
take $x if $x ~~ $test;
}
}
}
That's the listop form. I was referring to the method form:
multi sub grep (
Rod Adams writes:
> >Uhmm... isn't *&foo the adverbial block? That is, isn't it where grep
> >gets its code block in:
> >
> > @list.grep:{ $_ % 2 }
> >
> >
> >
> In S29, I currently have C as:
>
> multi sub grep (Any|Junction $test : [EMAIL PROTECTED]) returns List {
> gather {
> for @va
Luke Palmer wrote:
Larry Wall writes:
Certainly. The zone markers are as orthogonal to sigils as we can
make 'em. Though I'm not sure we've given a meaning to *&foo yet.
I suppose that would have to mean that the next slurpy parameter has
to be a sub ref.
Uhmm... isn't *&foo the adverbial
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 11:53:43AM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote:
: Larry Wall writes:
: > Certainly. The zone markers are as orthogonal to sigils as we can
: > make 'em. Though I'm not sure we've given a meaning to *&foo yet.
: > I suppose that would have to mean that the next slurpy parameter has
:
Larry Wall writes:
> Certainly. The zone markers are as orthogonal to sigils as we can
> make 'em. Though I'm not sure we've given a meaning to *&foo yet.
> I suppose that would have to mean that the next slurpy parameter has
> to be a sub ref.
Uhmm... isn't *&foo the adverbial block? That is,
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:54:09AM -0600, Rod Adams wrote:
: A06 says:
:
: If you |shift| or |pop| without an argument, it shifts or pops whatever
: slurpy array is in scope.
:
:
: Shall we assume that @_ is always an alias for this array, so I can say
: something like:
:
: multi sub pop (Ar
