Schwern observed:
A lot of people read "if (foo) { bar }" as "if foo then bar" in their heads.
I'm one of them. Its not a previous syntax thing, its a translation to
English thing.
Fair enough. It's not something I do myself, but I can see that many people
might prefer to.
This may be a conseq
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 12:21:13PM +1100, Damian Conway wrote:
> >"then" sounds too much like "if/then" which is confusing.
>
> Why? "if/then" has never been Perl syntax.
A lot of people read "if (foo) { bar }" as "if foo then bar" in their heads.
I'm one of them. Its not a previous syntax thing
Luke --
I guess it might be nice to just do that with a block...
my $n;
while { $n++; @accum } < $total {
...;
}
since we already have a nice do-this-then-do-this syntax.
Sure, it looks a little weird in a for loop:
for ($i = 0; $i < $X; { $i++; some_func() }) {
...;
}
but
I'm very much in favour of heteronymifying scalar vs list comma too.
Or else eliminating one of them.
Schwern wrote:
"then" sounds too much like "if/then" which is confusing.
Why? "if/then" has never been Perl syntax.
It also doesn't convey anything about "evaluate the left hand side, ignore
th
At 04:40 PM 11/24/2003 -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
I definately agree that this is used rarely enough that it should be a word
and not a single character.
"then" sounds too much like "if/then" which is confusing. Its exactly
the opposite from what you're trying to convey.
It also doesn't conve
> Honestly you guys, I'm not trolling. I'm just getting a lot of ideas
> recently. :-)
Honestly, I'm not an expert on Perl 6 syntax. (And I actually am being
honest... ;-) But I'll throw in my 2 cents anyway. :-)
>
>
> This word: C.
>
> So, from a recent script of mine:
>
> my $n;
>
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 05:00:38PM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote:
> The C comma has always bugged me, but its function is indeed useful
> (many times I use C in its place, if I know the left side will
> always be true). I don't know whether it's staying or not (I've heard
> rumors of both), but I'd sugg
Honestly you guys, I'm not trolling. I'm just getting a lot of ideas
recently. :-)
The C comma has always bugged me, but its function is indeed useful
(many times I use C in its place, if I know the left side will
always be true). I don't know whether it's staying or not (I've heard
rumors of bot
Damian Conway writes:
> Hmm. I think I may have missed Luke's point. Which was (presumably):
> what if C<$opus.write_to_file($file);> validly returns C?
>
> In which case I think we just fall back to:
>
> try{$opus.write_to_file($file); CATCH {die "Couldn't write to $file:
> $!"}}
>
