I think this is one of many steps in the right direction. Actually, I have a
class item defined in my fork as:
class foo
reserve bar scalar;
member bar {
default(bar) = '1';
set(bar) = {some code};
get(bar) = {some code};
ensure(bar) = {some code};
confirm(bar) = {some co
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 10:38:44PM -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
> On Monday 24 September 2001 09:58 pm, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> > yield() [2] simply says "run the block associated with this method
> > once". Similar to the $block->() call, but since it's not a full
> > subroutine call, just
On Monday 24 September 2001 09:58 pm, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> yield() [2] simply says "run the block associated with this method
> once". Similar to the $block->() call, but since it's not a full
> subroutine call, just a block enter/exit (like a normal iteration
> through a loop) there's two
How many times have you written this (well, since this is Perl 6
grammar, you've probably *never* written this, but you get the idea)
my $foo = %hash{$key} || 'some default';
Annoying, and you've got to scatter this sort of thing all over the
code, even if just to avoid "use of uninitialized
The normal, efficient Perl 5 way to open a file and do work on it.
open FILE, "some/file";
while() {
print;
}
close FILE;
Now consider this Perl 5 code that does the exact same thing.
foreach_line { print } 'some/file';
Ok, that's sort of neat. Very compact. Minim
