In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon) wrote:
>I'm going to pull a Larry and think out
>loud for a minute here. Note that I speak authoritatively here,
Noted. Or not. =)
>Treating it like an array is wrong.
>On the other hand, what if a filehandle *is* an
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Smylers) wrote:
>David Green writes:
>> I'm not even sure what those double-quotation marks are doing --
[...]
>Look back at how Larry defined the guillemets: [...]
>So the double-quotes in there are "shell-like", though I guess if you
>don't ha
Larry Wall wrote:
I thought so.
: I don't think I've ever used a hash slice in my life. Is there something
: wrong with me?
No, a lot of people are naturally monoindexous.
I like that word.
: >* The :w splitting happens after interpolation. So
: >
: > « foo $bar @baz »
: >
: > can end up
Juerd wrote:
Matthew Walton skribis 2004-12-01 9:55 (+):
Yes, that would be fun... almost worth throwing out a compiler warning
for that, especially if we've still got use warnings. Something like
Warning: «{ }» creates empty list
It should generate a warning similar to the warning of inte
Matthew Walton skribis 2004-12-01 10:11 (+):
> Well that depends... are you intending to write programs, or drive the
> world insane?
Yes.
Juerd
Bill Coffman writes:
> I can see that there is true magic in the power of using references in
> this way. Nonetheless, how can the compiler figure out that it can't
> use an integer here? The compiler should use integers when it can,
> but it sounds like you are saying that when a variable crosse
Jim,
> qq:i {} is just like qq{} except that when it interpolates variables,
> those which are undefined are preserved literally.
I think surprise might be a problem. E.g.
my $index = 0;
eval qq:i {
my @array = A .. Z;
sub example {
for my $index (0 .. $#array) {
All,
As with most technical problems, fully specifying them, is often half
the battle. In this case, I think we're getting close to
understanding the issues at least.
[please treat all statements as possible questions]
First, consider my original post in this thread:
http://www.nntp.perl.org/gr
