Re: "As soon as she walked through my door..."

2003-08-03 Thread George Woolley
Well, it would be nice to have it at: http://dev.perl.org/perl6/exegesis/ But the following from the O'Reilly user group newsletter may help ***Exegesis 6 Damian Conway explains how the new syntax and semantics of subroutines in Perl 6 make for cleaner, simpler, and more powerful cod

Re: "As soon as she walked through my door..."

2003-08-03 Thread Uri Guttman
> "BG" == Benjamin Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BG> Miko O Sullivan wrote: >> >> Congratulations to Damian on a great opening in Ex 6. Anybody can spoof >> the classic detective novel setup, but it takes real talent to have it >> actually make sense in the context of a tech

Re: "As soon as she walked through my door..."

2003-08-03 Thread Luke Palmer
> Miko O Sullivan wrote: > > > > Congratulations to Damian on a great opening in Ex 6. Anybody can spoof > > the classic detective novel setup, but it takes real talent to have it > > actually make sense in the context of a technical document. > > How long till Ex 6 is online, for those of us wh

Re: "As soon as she walked through my door..."

2003-08-03 Thread Benjamin Goldberg
Miko O Sullivan wrote: > > Congratulations to Damian on a great opening in Ex 6. Anybody can spoof > the classic detective novel setup, but it takes real talent to have it > actually make sense in the context of a technical document. How long till Ex 6 is online, for those of us who weren't ther

Re: E6 question

2003-08-03 Thread John Siracusa
On 8/1/03 11:44 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote: > Is it possible with the new parameter declaration syntax to declare > a mandatory name-only parameter? My earlier plea for this feature begins here: http://archive.develooper.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg14666.html I didn't think I made much headway, but thi

Re: %_ - is it available for use?

2003-08-03 Thread Abigail
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 04:33:19PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >Hence, making C<%_> mean something different in core Perl 5 might possibly be > > >"forwards incompatible". > > Representing the Backwards Compatiblity Police, I've had co-workers