Re: Static Values and Variable Bindings [was RE: Perl 6 - Cheerleader s?]

2001-11-01 Thread Ken Fox
Garrett Goebel wrote: > worried about the loss of data-hiding with Perl6's lexicals. > Was that ever resolved? Here in the 10-step Perl 6 program we don't talk about resolution. We just learn to cope with change. ;) There were two issues I had. As a Perl 6 user I felt uncomfortable that Perl 6 i

RE: Static Values and Variable Bindings [was RE: Perl 6 - Cheerleader s?]

2001-11-01 Thread Brent Dax
Garrett Goebel: # > my int ($pre, $in, $post) is constant = (0..2); # # Means that you are asking for compile time optimizations, and # agreeing not # to bless references to, or ascribe run-time properties to # those scalars. So # we've already got variables with constant values. # # I guess my qu

RE: Static Values and Variable Bindings [was RE: Perl 6 - Cheerleader s?]

2001-11-01 Thread Garrett Goebel
From: David M. Lloyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Garrett Goebel wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, David Nesting wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001, Aaron Sherman wrote: > > > : Yep, but in Perl5, this was never very clean or obvious > > > : to the casual programmer. Constants hav

Re: Static Values and Variable Bindings [was RE: Perl 6 - Cheerleader s?]

2001-11-01 Thread David M. Lloyd
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Garrett Goebel wrote: > On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, David Nesting wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:37:39AM -0500, Aaron Sherman wrote: > > : Yep, but in Perl5, this was never very clean or obvious to the > > : casual programmer. Constants have been coming of age in Perl, > > : a

Static Values and Variable Bindings [was RE: Perl 6 - Cheerleaders?]

2001-11-01 Thread Garrett Goebel
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, David Nesting wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:37:39AM -0500, Aaron Sherman wrote: > : Yep, but in Perl5, this was never very clean or obvious to the > : casual programmer. Constants have been coming of age in Perl, > : and they're kind of scary if they're not constant. > >

Re: Perl 6 - Cheerleaders?

2001-11-01 Thread Piers Cawley
"David M. Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, David Nesting wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:37:39AM -0500, Aaron Sherman wrote: >> : Yep, but in Perl5, this was never very clean or obvious to the >> : casual programmer. Constants have been coming of age in Perl, >> :

Re: Perl 6 - Cheerleaders?

2001-11-01 Thread David M. Lloyd
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, David Nesting wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:37:39AM -0500, Aaron Sherman wrote: > : Yep, but in Perl5, this was never very clean or obvious to the > : casual programmer. Constants have been coming of age in Perl, > : and they're kind of scary if they're not constant. >