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> From: "Sean O'Rourke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
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On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 11:18, Joseph F. Ryan wrote:
> Ignorant of what? Surely we shouldn't assume that we're all
> ignorant of Perl?
Ignorant of the untold number of ways things could be done better.
Assuming the universe has an infinite number of possibilities, we have
0% of the expressive space o
--- Sean O'Rourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
> > So 'if' and friends are just (native) subroutines with prototypes like:
> >
> >sub if (bool $c, Code $if_block) {...};
>
> IIRC it's not that pretty, unfortunately, if you want to support this:
>
>
"Joseph F. Ryan" wrote:
> Sorry, I hope I didn't offend you. In that last remark I was in no way
> fingering you; I was simply speaking broadly.
Nah, you didn't -- I know what you meant. I was just getting very
worried about the direction the conversation has been heading lately.
Well, that and
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
> So 'if' and friends are just (native) subroutines with prototypes like:
>
>sub if (bool $c, Code $if_block) {...};
IIRC it's not that pretty, unfortunately, if you want to support this:
if $test1 {
# blah
} elsunless $test2 {
Michael Lazzaro wrote:
"Joseph F. Ryan" wrote:
Perhaps in the grand scheme of things; however, anyone that is
redesigning a system should not be ignorant of how the old system
worked (even in the slightest degree), in order to know of what to
keep and what to throw away.
Oy. One more ti
