On Sun, 01 Oct 2000, Sean M. Burke wrote:
> If you want to remove trailing fields, under Perl 6 you should have to
> do it explicitly:
>
>Perl 5: @x = split /:/, $bar;
> be synonymous with
>Perl 6: @x = split ':', $bar;
> while(@x and !length $x[-1]) { pop @x }
Which,
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On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 15:30:46 -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
>it's not a new feature. It's amazing the subtle control you
>can get with s/(\$...)/$1/ge depending on your
>
>Wrapping such a critter up in a tied scalar sounds like a total
>piece of cake
What will you do with:
${foo}bar
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>
>C is extended to allow complete access to the "call frame" of
>the current subroutine call.
>
would this be better suited by the previously proposed (i'm not sure for perl6 though)
C pragma? Loo
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On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 07:24:38PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > $foo = """Things like ', ", and \ have no special meaning in here.""";
>
> Argh! *NO*! That way lies madness, or at least DCL's quoting mania. My
> record, in a command procedure that wrote other command procedures that
> submi
Bart Lateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But anyway: whould this imply that URL- and simple HTML escaping and
> back, will now be available through pack()/unpack()? Just like UUE?
> ;-)
Adding base64 encoding/decoding and quoted-printable would also be useful.
Either that, or taking uuenc
On 27 Sep 2000 07:36:42 -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
>Perl6 make it *easier* to write CGI programs than Perl5.
That is a strange sentence.
But anyway: whould this imply that URL- and simple HTML escaping and
back, will now be available through pack()/unpack()? Just like UUE?
;-)
-
I should have said: file-scoped lexical.
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 21:56:43 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>If it's lexically scoped, would it be for arrays declared in that scope, or
>for arrays accessed in that scope?
>I'm not sure. I think I see potential breakage both ways.
You don't declare Perl a
Bart Lateur wrote:
> On 30 Sep 2000 20:13:55 -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
>
> >But setting $[ = 1 is the mathematically correct method for
> >array addressing and makes it easier for ordinary mortals to do
> >basic tasks with C, array addressing and the like.
>
> I sure don't want the fact t
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 16:39:04 -0400, Adam Turoff wrote:
>I repeat:
>
>> >All of the other features offered by Lincoln Stein's CGI.pm should remain,
>> >but should not be deeply integrated into Perl6.
> ^^^
>:-)
>
>The proposed 'use cgi;' pragma is concerned with gluing Perl into a cgi
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 09:56:43PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> Similarly modules' formatting breaks if you set $/;
$\;
D'oh
> How many of the punctuation variables would be better with less-than-global
> scope?
Nicholas Clark
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 10:34:40PM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
> On 30 Sep 2000 20:13:55 -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
>
> >But setting $[ = 1 is the mathematically correct method for
> >array addressing and makes it easier for ordinary mortals to do
> >basic tasks with C, array addressing and
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 07:30:03PM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
> >All of the other features offered by Lincoln Stein's CGI.pm should remain,
> >but should not be deeply integrated into Perl6.
>
> Eek, no! I don't want no steenking p() functions etc. to generate HTML
> on the fly! That is one featur
On 30 Sep 2000 20:13:55 -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
>But setting $[ = 1 is the mathematically correct method for
>array addressing and makes it easier for ordinary mortals to do
>basic tasks with C, array addressing and the like.
I sure don't want the fact that a scripter decides to change
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:18:34 +0100, Tom Christiansen wrote:
>my is fine, but local
>should be changed to something like "temporary" (yes, that
>is supposed to be annoying to type) or "dynamic".
I like "temporary" best, because it says exactly what the purpose is:
temporary $x = $x+2;
T
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On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 03:48:07PM +0300, Ariel Scolnicov wrote:
> This is done in Lisp, and other functional languages. Lisp lets you
> declare mutually recursive objects using the (letrec ...) form. In
> Scheme, say:
>
> (letrec ((even? (lambda (x) (if (= x 0) t (odd? (- x 1)
>
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On Tue, 26 Sep 2000 11:13:30 -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> -{rwx}; # negation of a hashref
That's a weird hashref. Odd number of arguments, anyone?
If rwx is supposed to be a sub, we could say that this is an exception,
just like $hash{bareword} is an exception. So, if you want the sub,
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On 25 Sep 2000 06:01:57 -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
>All of the other features offered by Lincoln Stein's CGI.pm should remain,
>but should not be deeply integrated into Perl6.
No cookie support, please. Cookies should remain in a module.
--
Bart.
On 25 Sep 2000 06:01:57 -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
>Perl6 should be *easier* to write CGI programs than Perl5.
>To make CGI programming easier, this option/pragma should:
...
>Parse the CGI context, returning CGI variables into %CGI
I like that one.
>Not take up gobs of memory
That too
"David L. Nicol" wrote:
> >
> > This is a new feature, so name conflict is the only issue.
> >
> > Thisseems compatiblewith otherextensionsto string
> > interpolation... whatever extensions get implemented should work here
> > too.
>
> it's not a new feature. It's amazing
Nathan Wiger wrote:
> (And if the RFC is proposing autoquoting only barewords, then I think
> that's _really_ inconsistent and should not be done.)
Isn't autoquoting only barewords precisely the type of autoquoting that => does?
So there is a precedent. I've been assuming all along that that is
"John L. Allen" wrote:
> On 29 Sep 2000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
>
> > Make Perl's powerful string interpolation facilities are available to
> > variables, in addition to literals.
> >
> > =head1 DESCRIPTION
> >
> > Given:
> >
> > $foo = 'def';
> > $bar = 'ghi';
> > $x = "abc$foo$bar";
> > $y
Alan Gutierrez wrote:
>
> This just in from RFC 2068 HTTP/1.1 - 4.2 Message Headers:
>
> The field value may be preceded by any amount of LWS, though a single SP
> is preferred. Header fields can be extended over multiple lines by
> preceding each extra line with at least one SP or HT.
Yes, sim
Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 04:13:46PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> > Did anyone suggest the following yet?
> > package Foo;
> > my sub _helper_function { ... }
>
> Todo:
> lexically scoped functions: my sub foo { ... }
> the basic conce
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 05:29:26PM -0700, David Olbersen wrote:
> -> -Original Message-
> -> From: Russ Allbery [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> -> Just out of curiosity, and I'm not objecting to this RFC, has anyone
> -> reading this mailing list actually intentionally used a vertical tab for
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:16:43 +0100, Tom Christiansen wrote:
>Try thinking of it this way: it's only a bareword if
>it would make use strict whinge at you.
So every bareword would be recognized as a sub. That, is nice. For
starters, Perl parsers can more easily recognize a sub name, without a
ne
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