Final, no really, Final draft: Conventions and Guidelines for Perl Source Code

2001-08-23 Thread Dave Mitchell
Okay, this really, really *really* the final draft. can I have a PDD number, please Dan? The only change since last is the stuff about if/else layout. Dave M. =head1 TITLE Conventions and Guidelines for Perl Source Code =head1 VERSION =head2 CURRENT Maintainer: Dave Mitchell <[EMAIL P

Re: Will subroutine signatures apply to methods in Perl6

2001-08-23 Thread Damian Conway
Garrett asked: > Any word from on high whether subroutine signatures will apply to > methods in Perl6? Well, I hardly qualify as "on high" ("on *a* high" perhaps?) but I can definitely say this: They will and they won't. ;-) At compile-time, signatures can only be honoured if the com

Re: Temp properties

2001-08-23 Thread Damian Conway
John asked: > Can properties be temp()orarily masked? For example: > > foreach my $array (@arrays) > { > temp $array.sep = ', '; # assuming this is a real property > print "$array\n"; # prints "item1, item2, item3, ..." > } I would expect so,