On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 03:17:19PM -0600, Garrett Goebel wrote:
> I do worry that as Perl grows richer, so does the need for underlying
> consistency and simplicity.
You're not alone in that.
> I guess it is all about seeking the correct balance. And that is
> something Larry and the Perl commu
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 03:28:29PM -0800, Austin Hastings wrote:
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> --- Garrett Goebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hmm... Out of curiosity what kind of user-extensible topicalizer
> > aware constructs would you make?
>
> Remember Larry's comment that the -> operator is a kind of "parame
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 04:12:12PM -0800, Austin Hastings wrote:
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> Nobody has the least bit of trouble understanding that WITHIN the for
> loop, the "default value" just changed from whatever it was outside.
Well, C is a topicalizer, and always has been, even before we had a
name for it, so th
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 03:30:00PM -0600, Garrett Goebel wrote:
>
> Hmm... Out of curiosity what kind of user-extensible topicalizer aware
> constructs would you make?
I'm envisioning something along the lines of: while parsing a file, you
have a C loop through the file and a series of subrouti
--- Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 10:11:13AM -0800, Austin Hastings wrote:
> >
> > > C is a conditional like C, not a topicalizer.
> >
> > Right, it's a topicalizee, the victim of topicalization.
> > And so it uses $_ or $x or $! or whatever the current to
--- Garrett Goebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Allison Randal wrote:
> > Garrett Goebel wrote:
> > >
> > > I guess the next question in the context of the following is:
> > >
> > > Larry Wall wrote in Apocalypse 4:
> > > >
> > > > It should be possible to make user-extensible syntax look
> > >
Allison Randal wrote:
> Garrett Goebel wrote:
> >
> > I guess the next question in the context of the following is:
> >
> > Larry Wall wrote in Apocalypse 4:
> > >
> > > It should be possible to make user-extensible syntax look
> > > just like built-in syntax.
> >
> > How would I create a user-
From: Allison Randal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 04:24:48PM -0600, Garrett Goebel wrote:
> > From: Allison Randal
> >
> > Not just some value external to the switch, but the value in $_.
> >
> > I now see the DWIM aspect. Thanks BTW.
> >
> > But how often will people ha
