> "AT" == Adam Turoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AT> On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 06:38:36PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
>> > "ML" == Michael Lazzaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ML> Along those lines, the closest I've been able to come so far to a
ML> usable two-sentence definition is:
On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 04:24 PM, Uri Guttman wrote:
ML> \(1,2,3)
ML> returns an array reference...
in perl5 it returns a list of refs ( \1, \2, \3 ). i dunno the perl6
semantics. it could be the same as [ 1, 2, 3 ] which means it is not a
Sorry, I was misremembering a threa
> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 14:46:37 -0800
> From: Michael Lazzaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 02:07 PM, Uri Guttman wrote:
> > the whole notion is that lists are always temporary and arrays can be
> > as
> > permanent as you want (an array ref going quickly out of sco
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 06:38:36PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
> > "ML" == Michael Lazzaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ML> Along those lines, the closest I've been able to come so far to a
> ML> usable two-sentence definition is:
>
> ML> -- A list is an ordered set of scalar values.
>
> "ML" == Michael Lazzaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ML> On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 03:38 PM, Uri Guttman wrote:
>> but you can't derive the rules about allowing push/pop/splice/slice
>> from
>> that pair of defintions.
ML> Is there any syntactic reason why both of the follow
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:30:47PM -0500, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On 2003-02-07 at 14:26:42, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> > Not really, though. A list can be an lvalue, provided it is a list
> > of lvalues:
Note that to avoid the burden of writing an explicit slice, 'undef' is
considered as a lvalue in su
On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 03:38 PM, Uri Guttman wrote:
but you can't derive the rules about allowing push/pop/splice/slice
from
that pair of defintions.
Is there any syntactic reason why both of the following cannot be
allowed?
(1,2,3).pop
[1,2,3].pop
I don't know that one is
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> Along those lines, the closest I've been able to come so far to a
> usable two-sentence definition is:
>
> -- A list is an ordered set of scalar values.
quibble: that's an "ordered bag", isn't it?
> "ML" == Michael Lazzaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ML> On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 02:07 PM, Uri Guttman wrote:
>> the whole notion is that lists are always temporary and arrays can
>> be as
>> permanent as you want (an array ref going quickly out of scope is very
>> temporar
On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 02:07 PM, Uri Guttman wrote:
the whole notion is that lists are always temporary and arrays can be
as
permanent as you want (an array ref going quickly out of scope is very
temporary). lists can't live beyond the current expression but arrays
can.
Along those l
> "MJR" == Mark J Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MJR> A reference is fundamentally a pointer, but that doesn't help. My point
MJR> was that if you're talking about lists vs. arrays, you have at least
MJR> three different syntaxes to distinguish:
MJR> (1,2,3)
MJR>
On 2003-02-07 at 12:18:21, Austin Hastings wrote:
> > Although this may reasonably be regarded as a special case; you
> > certainly can't pop a list:
> >
> > (1,2,3).pop => error
>
> But could you do it the other way (function instead of method)?
> pop (1,2,3) => ?
Nope. At least, n
--- "Mark J. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2003-02-07 at 11:13:07, Austin Hastings wrote:
> > --- Michael Lazzaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I'm trying, and failing, to accurately and definitively answer
> the
> > > question "what's the difference between an array and a list in
> >
On 2003-02-07 at 14:26:42, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Not really, though. A list can be an lvalue, provided it is a list
> of lvalues:
>
> ($a, $b, $c) = 1,2,3;
Forgot the parens on the right side, there:
($a, $b, $c) = (1,2,3);
> But they certainly aren't lvalues:
>
> [$a,$
On 2003-02-07 at 11:13:07, Austin Hastings wrote:
> --- Michael Lazzaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm trying, and failing, to accurately and definitively answer the
> > question "what's the difference between an array and a list in
> > Perl6?"
>
> How's this?
>
>
> A list is a
--- Michael Lazzaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm trying, and failing, to accurately and definitively answer the
> question "what's the difference between an array and a list in
> Perl6?"
>
> If someone can come up with a simple but accurate definition, it
> would be helpful.
How's this?
=
I'm trying, and failing, to accurately and definitively answer the
question "what's the difference between an array and a list in Perl6?"
If someone can come up with a simple but accurate definition, it would
be helpful.
MikeL
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