On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:24:33PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
> > Symbol table manipulation will work as long as your mucking about
> > doesn't alter the strict class's signature. ie. you can shove a code
> > ref onto the symbol table as long as a stub for that method was
> > defined at compile
~/perl/perl-5.7.1$ ./perl -le '%a=(1..10); print it; exists $a{1} and print
it'
2
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On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 14:05:44 -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>My question/suggestion: why not get rid of @arrays and %hashes as
>separate variable types? Have all variables be scalar - with,
>of course, the ability to hold a reference to an anonymous array
>or hash. Keep the funny characters around,
> > I have done a quick scan of the archives for a
> > discussion on this topic and didn't see it; if I
> > just missed it, I'd appreciate it if someone
> > could send me a link to the thread or
> > applicable RFC[s].
Futhermore, this is still a topic of active discussion,
so just stay tuned.
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Currently, this expression:
VALUE1 < VALUE2
is functionally equivalent to this:
$v2 = VALUE2;
$v1 = VALUE1;
return ($v2-$v1 == abs($v2-$v1));
After reading the Apocalypse & Exegesis articles, and seeing some examples
of properties and the "is" operator, I'd lik
> I have done a quick scan of the archives for a
> discussion on this topic and didn't see it; if I
> just missed it, I'd appreciate it if someone
> could send me a link to the thread or
> applicable RFC[s].
I suspect you didn't use the all search, right?
Just in case:
http://www.mail-archiv
I'm sure this has been brought up before, but I'm a latecomer who
didn't see anything on the Perl6 design until the first Apocalypse.
I apologize for the redundancy. I have done a quick scan of the
archives for a discussion on this topic and didn't see it; if I
just missed it, I'd appreciate it i
