Recently I presented a Perl 6 overview talk at a Java conference. The
audience was mostly mute, which is unfortunate as I wanted to hear some
feedback or at least some groans of pain, but there was one Lisp programmer
in the front row that asked some interesting questions.
One was "Perl 6 suppor
Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 10:05:50AM -, Smylers wrote:
>
> > Many Perl programs use C<$_> to mean
> > 'the current line'. 'A2' gives the Perl 6 syntax for this as:
> >
> >while $STDIN {
> >
> > Maybe somewhere in the middle of
> > it, it's necessary to have a C loo
Luke Palmer wrote:
> On 21 Sep 2002, Smylers wrote:
>
> > But because C<$num> _might_ be used as an array ref, the data has to
> > be kept around, which is wasteful.
>
> The programmer should know whether it would or wouldn't,
Oh, I wasn't doubting that. I was just concerned that if the 'typi
Aaron Sherman wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 06:38, Smylers wrote:
>
> > ... lists now use square brackets.
>
> I don't disagree that this is a good thing, but let's look at some
> cases that might not look the way you had intended:
Oh, I hadn't really intending anything. Starting from what
