On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Garrett Goebel wrote:
> The only acceptable code name other than "Perl6" is "YACN" ;)
>
What's that? You Actually Cannot Tell? Yes, All the Code is New? Yet
Another Crazy Notion?
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x27;m trying to make is
that the contextual clues (@$%) don't tell you what IT is, but what you're
getting from IT. That's what's so important.
Take this away and Perl becomes C.
int a;
struct b;
*cough* No, thank you.
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On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, David Corbin wrote:
> Mike Pastore wrote:
>
> > $hashish{'dog'}# one whutzit
> > @hashish{'dog', 'cat'} # more than one whutzits
> > each %hashish # one whutzit, indexed
> > %hashish
gs>, because from a
"birds-eye view" a programmer would see the C<@> and move to the next
line, not pausing to read all the way through to see that C is
obviously plural. Again, I refer you to Dan Sugalski's message about this.
> You are asking wrong/unnecessary questions, and getting wrong answers.
That was disturbingly Zen. ;-)
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...
}
or:
for($i = 0; $i <= $#array; $i++) {
next unless $array[$i];
...
}
this:
while(($index, $value) = each(@array)) {
...
}
Seems much more elegant, although maybe we should stick to for* commands
for arrays.
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ast index,
4) maybe others?
$#ARY could be depreciated (another "confusing" special variable bites
the dust) and we would have a whole lot more detail regarding arrays
during array ops.
Any thoughts on this?
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;t start at uno. That doesn't make ANY sense!
> Other than this issue the RFC is excellent^Wamazing.
Here, here. As usual, Damian. :)
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