Stéphane Payrard wrote:
[snip]
> Non alphabetic characters are very conspicuous, so redundancy should
> be avoided. But Sigil _and_square/curly bracket are redundant.
Not quite...
In Perl5, the dereference operator (->) is optional between pairs of
subscript operators, so $foo[$x]->[$y] can be wr
At 04:53 PM 3/20/2003 +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
Clinton A. Pierce wrote:
The suggestion was made last week that I try filtering the compiled BASIC
stuff through IMCC for performance reasons and whatnot.
IMCC seems to want headers that MSVC++ isn't happy with:
cl -nologo -O1 -MD -DND
At 11:10 AM -0500 3/25/03, Adam Turoff wrote:
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:21:51PM -0500, Benjamin Goldberg wrote:
And what happens if a programmer wants to have two different variables,
of two different types, with the same name, such as @data and %data?
Without sigils, it cannot be done.
Vast nu
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 02:21:52PM +0100, Stéphane Payrard wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:49:38AM +0100, Kay Roepke wrote:
> >
> > On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 04:29 AM, Adam Turoff wrote:
> >
> > >I've never come across a programmer who wishes he could do this
> > >in C and have the co
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:49:38AM +0100, Kay Roepke wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 04:29 AM, Adam Turoff wrote:
>
> >I've never come across a programmer who wishes he could do this
> >in C and have the compiler magically know what's what:
> >
> > int spam (int spam, char **spam
On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 04:29 AM, Adam Turoff wrote:
I've never come across a programmer who wishes he could do this
in C and have the compiler magically know what's what:
int spam (int spam, char **spam) {
int eggs;
double spam;
re
