Re: $^a, $^b, and friends

2002-04-04 Thread Larry Wall
Dan Sugalski writes: : At 3:11 PM -0800 4/3/02, Larry Wall wrote: : >Piers Cawley writes: : >: Jonathan Scott Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : >: : >: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 11:27:10AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: : >: >> They are assumed to be declared in alphabetical order. Whoa! you say, : >:

Re: classes, interfaces, properties and 'is'

2002-04-04 Thread Melvin Smith
At 07:12 AM 4/5/2002 +1000, Damian Conway wrote: >Melvin Smith wrote: > > > 1) In Perl6 we can tag metadata properties to an object using the 'is' > keyword. > >Err, no. We can add properties to a *class* using C. >To tag objects (which are run-time phenomena) we'd use C. Oops, ok this was my mi

Re: classes, interfaces, properties and 'is'

2002-04-04 Thread Damian Conway
Melvin Smith wrote: > 1) In Perl6 we can tag metadata properties to an object using the 'is' keyword. Err, no. We can add properties to a *class* using C. To tag objects (which are run-time phenomena) we'd use C. > 2) Also, in Perl6 we can derive a new class from an ancestor using 'is'. Corre

Re:http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-announce-rfc@perl.org/msg00318.html

2002-04-04 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 11:09, Luke Palmer wrote: > On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, James Ryley wrote: > How 'bout: > > $foo = 'def'; > $bar = 'ghi'; > $y = 'abc$foo$bar'; > $z = eval qq{"$y"}; > > Of course, for security and correctness reasons, you'd probably want to: > > $y =~ s/\\//g; > $y =~ s/"!/\

Re: The new =~, and chaining statement modifiers

2002-04-04 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 20:49, Larry Wall wrote: > : Additionally, can you chain statement modifiers? > : > : do_this() if $a unless $b; [...] > No, still can't chain them. That's a darned shame. In p5, I keep going back to code and finding something like: print foreach @x; and wanting

Re: $^a, $^b, and friends

2002-04-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 3:11 PM -0800 4/3/02, Larry Wall wrote: >Piers Cawley writes: >: Jonathan Scott Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >: >: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 11:27:10AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: >: >> They are assumed to be declared in alphabetical order. Whoa! you say, >: >> that could get confusing. It s

classes, interfaces, properties and 'is'

2002-04-04 Thread Melvin Smith
Reading Apoc and Exeg 4 I liked most everything. It has already been said many times how Perl6 is finally getting features the OO guys have been wanting forever, so I won't state the obvious again, but I would like to propose an alternate keyword... 1) In Perl6 we can tag metadata properties to a

Re: Exegesis 4

2002-04-04 Thread Larry Wall
Piers Cawley writes: : Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : : > Larry explained: : > : >> : Umm. didn't you say bare blocks were going away? : >> : >> Rule #2 was invoked. : >> : >> The current thinking is that any bare block will never be interpreted : >> as returning a closure. Yo

Re: http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-announce-rfc@perl.org/msg00318.html

2002-04-04 Thread Luke Palmer
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, James Ryley wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if anything ever became of the comments at > http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00318.html? > > I have an application that would benefit from double interpolation. Of > course I can work around it, but double interpolation would be so muc

defaulting parameters

2002-04-04 Thread Miko O'Sullivan
Hi everyone! My name is Miko O'Sullivan, and I've been a devoted Perl Hacker for several years now. I'm looking forward to participating in the discussion of Perl 6. To give a little perspective on my comments, I got my degree in Marketing about a decade ago, and I've never quite decided if I'm

Re: Apo-Ex arhive

2002-04-04 Thread iain truskett
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [05 Apr 2002 00:34]: > hi, > I thought it will be good if on dev.perl6.org we have an arhive with > all Apo's and Ex's, so anyone can get them in pack... (prefebaly > printed version) Throught the links I got all except Apo1. Anyone to > have the link nearb

http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-announce-rfc@perl.org/msg00318.html

2002-04-04 Thread James Ryley
Hi, I was wondering if anything ever became of the comments at http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00318.html? I have an application that would benefit from double interpolation. Of course I can work around it, but double interpolation would be so much cleaner. Was it ever implemented, or will it be? S

Apo-Ex arhive

2002-04-04 Thread raptor
hi, I thought it will be good if on dev.perl6.org we have an arhive with all Apo's and Ex's, so anyone can get them in pack... (prefebaly printed version) Throught the links I got all except Apo1. Anyone to have the link nearby iVAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Danke very much :")