Re: S10/11 Questions

2004-11-09 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 09:18:47PM -0600, Rod Adams wrote: : Can we get an AUTOCLASS/AUTOCLASSDEF hook pair? Considering a class is just a variable in another symbol table, seems like an AUTOVAR in the container might cover it. : How does one create a class with a hyphen in the middle of it? Why

S10/11 Questions

2004-11-09 Thread Rod Adams
Some questions: - Can we get an AUTOCLASS/AUTOCLASSDEF hook pair? - How does one create a class with a hyphen in the middle of it? If I say: use Foo-Bar; will it complain about not finding a Bar version of Foo? Would I instead need to say: use 'Foo-Bar'; use Foo\-Bar; use ('Foo-Bar'); $x

Re: S11 - Modules and export

2004-11-09 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 05:20:50PM -0500, Aaron Sherman wrote: : I'm still troubled by the export trait as I read S11. I like not having : to write a new subroutine in a procedural module and THEN go back up and : edit @EXPORT. That's good. : : But, it seems to me that: : : module MyHTML {

S11 - Modules and export

2004-11-09 Thread Aaron Sherman
I'm still troubled by the export trait as I read S11. I like not having to write a new subroutine in a procedural module and THEN go back up and edit @EXPORT. That's good. But, it seems to me that: module MyHTML { # Wherein I pretend to have written an HTML module

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-01 through 2004-11-08

2004-11-09 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:39 PM -0500 11/8/04, Matt Fowles wrote: calling convenctions, traceback, and register allocation Leo suggested a new way to invoke functions which would clean up calling, tracebacks, and register allocation. While such a change would have great aesthetic value, Dan declared it