Larry wrote:
> Actually, I'm thinking we should just go with a single method and
> have it merely default to :lang. But .repr is rather ugly.
> How 'bout .pretty instead? If we made the language the first optional
> argument you could have $x.pretty('Lisp'), $x.pretty('C#'), etc.
Hm, maybe we
Larry Wall wrote:
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 02:18:55AM -0600, Rod Adams wrote:
: The simple if is:
:
: if $x ~~ (1,2,3,4) {...} # parens needed here since , is lower than ~~
: in precedence.
That is asking if $x is a list containing 1,2,3,4.
Quoting S04:
$_ $xType of Match Impli
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 10:12:43PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
: On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 10:07:34PM -0800, chromatic wrote:
: : On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 08:54 -0800, David Wheeler wrote:
: :
: : > And what of .c#?
: :
: : It's an alias for .java.
:
: I'm sorry, but neither of those is powerful enough
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:02:25 -0600, Patrick R. Michaud
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The latest S12 has it as bool::true and bool::false.
>
> S03 still indicates that boolean operators return "a standard
> boolean value (either 1 or 0)". Are we continuing with 1 and 0
> as the standard boolean v
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 11:02:25PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
: On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:03:09PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 02:29:36PM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote:
: > : Just a quick question. The prettyprinter of Pugs (the thing that
: > : handles the ".perl" meth
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 09:06:47AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> Junctions can short circuit when they feel like it, and might in some
> cases do a better job of picking the evaluation order than a human.
Hmm, yes, there is an interesting interaction with lazy
evaluation ranges here.
$x = any( 1
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 08:58:21AM +0100, Thomas Sandlaß wrote:
: HaloO Larry,
:
: you wrote:
: >That would be cool. I'd like to see our community build up a pool of
: >theoreticians who are not allergic to the practicalities of building a
: >language for ordinary people to think in. It is my pe
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 02:18:55AM -0600, Rod Adams wrote:
: The simple if is:
:
: if $x ~~ (1,2,3,4) {...} # parens needed here since , is lower than ~~
: in precedence.
That is asking if $x is a list containing 1,2,3,4.
: Same for unless/while/until. And all of this from the entirely useful C
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 01:32:32PM -0600, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 03:09:24PM -0300, LOGGOS TI wrote:
> > Please, where may i download this version ? Is there an usable version
> Greetings Roberto! You've stumbled upon the mailing list for the
> design of the Perl 6 lan
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
Rod Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Larry Wall wrote:
That, and we'd like a novice to be able to write
given $x {
when 1 | 2 | 3 {...}
when 4 | 5 | 6 {...}
}
Or just change C to accept a list of things to compare against,
followed by a coderef.
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