On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 08:53:41AM -0700, Glenn Linderman wrote:
>
> Off hand, it seems like defaulting to "is dynamic_topic" would make
> more of those common useful $_-dependent subroutines work without
> change, but I guess if the perl 5 to 6 translator can detect use of $_
> before definition
Rich Morin writes:
: Some while back, I asked the Perk5-porters whether there were any
: parts of Perl that could benefit from vector processors (e.g., the
: G4 Velocity Engine). The consensus of the respondents ranged from
: "probably not" to "I don't want to think about it".
Well, Perl 5 doesn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: Dave Mitchell wrote:
:
: > The top 20 'my $var' declarations in .pm files in the bleedperl
: > distribution:
:
: How *dare* you introduce hard data into this discussion!
: Next you'll be wanting to deal in actual facts rather than personal
: opinion and sheer guesses
> There'd be an interaction between is topic_preserving, default parameter
> values, and explicit parameter values which should be clarified. Now I
> understand why someone suggested using //= $_ instead of is
> topic_preserving, somewhere along the line. Clearly if the user
> supplies the par
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 12:51:06AM -0700, Ashley Winters wrote:
> Perl today: A semicolon is required after every statement, except before a
> closing curly or end of file.
> Perl 6: A semicolon is also required after every block, except when the
> closing curly is on a line of its own, or it prec
Allison Randal wrote:
> What if $_ were dynamically scoped, but only for subroutines? Dynamic
> scoping is not necessarily the same thing as a global $_. It would
> merely pretend (only for $_) that the subroutine had been defined in the
> scope where it was evaluated. But that could get you into
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 05:34:13PM -0700, Glenn Linderman wrote:
> Allison Randal wrote:
> > > In a message dated Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Glenn Linderman writes:
> > > > $_ becomes lexical
>
> > Sound logic. And it almost did go that way. But subs that access the
> > current $_ directly are far too com
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> On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 04:42:07PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > >
> > > Why isn't
> > >
> > > if %foo {"key"} {print "Hello 1"}
> > >
> > > equivalent with the perl5 syntax:
> > >
> > > if (%foo) {"key
