Re: parrot "press"

2002-08-01 Thread jadams01
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 11:22:26 -0700 (PDT) Sean O'Rourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A bit of Parrot bloggage where I didn't expect it > http://lambda.weblogs.com/discuss/msgReader$3850 I especially liked this part: "There is a tutorial at the main site and an O'Reilly book available." The book

Re: Re: Various pre-0.0.3 updates.

2001-12-05 Thread jadams01
Oh, you technical people: Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>FreeBSD 4.4 / gcc >>Irix6.5 / MIPSPro >Would those be working or not working? :) The answer is, obviously, "Yes." Now get back to work. Whoops--that was someone talking to me! John A

Re: Re: Perl6 -- what is in a name?

2002-01-28 Thread jadams01
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The third group that won't be happy with Perl 6 are those who program > in a limited subset of Perl - so limited, in fact, that they will > most likely be bitten by minor changes in the language, without the > benefit of experiencing the major improvements that those ch

Re: Re: RFC: new logical operator

2002-02-21 Thread jadams01
"Randal L. Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sam> No, "but" is syntactically equivalent to "and" in English. It Sam> just implies that the second condition is not generally what Sam> you'd expect if the first was true. Randal> Maybe in the interest of huffman encoding, we could make Randal>

Ex4 smart match question

2002-04-05 Thread jadams01
Does one of these items not belong? >From Exegesis 4: This new turbo-charged 'smart match' operator will also work on arrays, hashes and lists: if @array =~ $elem {...}# true if @array contains $elem if $key =~ %hash {...} # true if %hash{$key} if $value