Re: Pre-defined properties/traits/etc.

2003-03-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 11:58:39PM +, Simon Cozens wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allison Randal) writes: > > > Oh well, it was only two letters. There wasn't anything about > > > approximate matching in A5, was there? > > > > I'm not sure what you mean, could you give an example? > > This was

Re: Pre-defined properties/traits/etc.

2003-03-01 Thread Allison Randal
Simon wrote: > > > Oh well, it was only two letters. There wasn't anything about > > > approximate matching in A5, was there? > > This was a [MZ]u[nr]ich joke, I think. * Allison trundles off to caffeinate her brain.

Re: Pre-defined properties/traits/etc.

2003-03-01 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allison Randal) writes: > > Oh well, it was only two letters. There wasn't anything about > > approximate matching in A5, was there? > > I'm not sure what you mean, could you give an example? This was a [MZ]u[nr]ich joke, I think. -- Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we l

Re: Pre-defined properties/traits/etc.

2003-03-01 Thread Allison Randal
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:02:42AM +0100, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 02:58:04PM -0600, Allison Randal wrote: > > > [0] STL = St. Louis - June 2002, ETH = ETH campus in Munich - Sept. > > ETH is in Zurich. The Mini::Conference there was immediately followed > by YAPC::Europe in

Re: Pre-defined properties/traits/etc.

2003-03-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 02:58:04PM -0600, Allison Randal wrote: > [0] STL = St. Louis - June 2002, ETH = ETH campus in Munich - Sept. ETH is in Zurich. The Mini::Conference there was immediately followed by YAPC::Europe in Munich. All these old European cities speaking funny German just merge t

Re: Pre-defined properties/traits/etc.

2003-03-01 Thread Allison Randal
Simon Cozens wrote: > > Well, here's a start. Here are the ones I've found in the Exegeses and > Apocalypses. Things like 'is copy' and 'is given' (and probably a > great many others) have only been mentioned on the list, and I'm not > grepping through all the list mail. :) C is gone now anyway.

Re: Arrays, lists, referencing

2003-03-01 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 06:09:15PM +0100, Paul Johnson wrote: : I suspect that a lot would break if the order of : evaluation changed. And I think it would be sensible for Perl 6 to : define such an order. Certainly. The fact that Perl 5 doesn't define it is merely an oversight, brought on no do

Re: Arrays, lists, referencing

2003-03-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 12:00:33AM -0500, Stephen McCamant wrote: > > "DP" == Deborah Ariel Pickett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >writes: > > DP> One thing that the C comma operator promises is that its left > DP> operand (and all side effects) is completely evaluated before work > DP> starts o

Pre-defined properties/traits/etc.

2003-03-01 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Cozens) writes: > Can someone please compile a list of all the "is foo" properties that > have been suggested/accepted as being pre-defined by the language? > I can't keep track of them all. Well, here's a start. Here are the ones I've found in the Exegeses and Apocalypses