Re: $RS paragraph mode going away?

2002-07-05 Thread Larry Wall
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Trey Harris wrote: : Did I hear somewhere that paragraph mode (i.e., C<$/ = ''>) is going away? : I can't find it in my archives, so maybe it was one of my feverish Perl 6 : dreams (of which I've had too many lately, after spending a few days in : training with Damian ;-) but I

$RS paragraph mode going away?

2002-07-05 Thread Trey Harris
Did I hear somewhere that paragraph mode (i.e., C<$/ = ''>) is going away? I can't find it in my archives, so maybe it was one of my feverish Perl 6 dreams (of which I've had too many lately, after spending a few days in training with Damian ;-) but I think I heard it said by someone with authorit

Re: Perl 6, The Good Parts Version

2002-07-05 Thread Erik Steven Harrison
>What about parsing? I think the fact that Perl 6 will pretty much >have parser capabilities built in is pretty distinctive. > >Ted When someone wants to write a parser, they turn to Perl 90% of the time (at least to prototype). The fact that they're really using a powerful lexer instead of a

Re: Reflection...

2002-07-05 Thread Sean O'Rourke
On 5 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > At 8:29 AM -0700 7/4/02, Sean O'Rourke wrote: > > >Sick. Anyways, I think it seems like a more natural way to do things than > > >traditional call/cc. "$block.continuation" reads as "where do I go after > > >$block?"