Re: renaming local to "fornow" (or maybe just "now")

2000-10-18 Thread Nathan Torkington
David L. Nicol writes: > > interim()? > > In discussing how to rename "local" > we appear to be trading in the spatial metaphor for the temporal. > How about > fornow I'd rather not revisit this, or any other, RFC until Larry's had a chance to *really* comment and put forward his suggesti

Re: renaming local to "fornow" (or maybe just "now")

2000-10-18 Thread Bart Lateur
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 17:45:56 -0500, David L. Nicol wrote: >"Now" is regularly used in English to separate the present from the general, >for instance the temporary situation > > "The Chiefs have scored a touchdown, now they will try for the extra point" > >could be expressed in gamerules::a

renaming local to "fornow" (or maybe just "now")

2000-10-18 Thread David L. Nicol
> > [1] 'For the time being', roughly speaking. > > interim()? In discussing how to rename "local" we appear to be trading in the spatial metaphor for the temporal. How about fornow which could occur either before or after the assignment? fornow $" = ','; $" = ','

Re: RFC 124 usefulness & implementation suggestion

2000-10-18 Thread Ken Fox
Bart Lateur wrote: > But isn't there going to be a large overhead, in populating such a > "hash"? If you need an ordered data structure the overhead would be lower than using a hash. > Doesn't the tree have to be reorganized every time you add a > single new entry? No. Sometimes you may have to

Re: RFC 124 usefulness & implementation suggestion

2000-10-18 Thread Bart Lateur
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 11:28:37 PDT, Carl Wuebker wrote: > I'd like to put in a pitch for RFC 124 in Perl 6. Balanced binary >trees (such as AVL or red-black trees) allow O(log2 n) insertion, searching, >outputting ranges of keys & deletion. I wouldn't want to touch existing Perl >hashes, but