Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 02:02:41PM +, Ingo Blechschmidt wrote:
>: # Possibility #2
>: multi sub *postcircumfix:<'[', ']'>(TiedArray $self, $index) {
>: # Body as above
>: }
> None of those are quite right, because you have to be prepar
Gaal Yahas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Two things popped up while implementing a demo version of alarm() today.
> 1. In perl5 and in most underlying libraries, alarm() has 1 second
> granularity
> 2. ..., in which you can
> pass an optional closure to alarm()
I can't say anything about the actu
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Matt Fowles wrote:
Python on Parrot
^^
Kevin Tew wondered what the state of pyrate was. Sam Ruby provided a
general explanation.
(I'm not on all of the lists, so this may have come out before and I j
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-04-12 through 2005-04-19
All~
Sadly, a slip of the mouse cause me to delete a partially completed
summary, so I am going to push ahead on the rewrite without a witty
intro. Feel free to make one up for yourself involving stuffed animals,
musicians, and d
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 02:02:41PM +, Ingo Blechschmidt wrote:
: Hi,
:
: quoting an old post from Luke (http://xrl.us/ftet):
: > Cing is going to work quite differently, from what I hear.
: > So it might be possible to overload any function to call a
: > special version when your type
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 06:01:48PM -0700, Dave Whipp wrote:
: The following is legal perl:
:
: print "$a $b $c" if ($a,$b,$c)=(1,2,3);
:
: This prints "1 2 3", but the definitions obviously aren't scoped to the
: modified statement. And a C in the modifier is a bit too late.
:
: Any reason to
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 02:14:04AM +0300, wolverian wrote:
: On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 04:00:53PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
: > %num_of_lines = [EMAIL PROTECTED];
: >
: > : because the Perl 5 way would put a reference to @file in the hash.
: > : Scalar context always makes references now, from wh
Hi,
quoting an old post from Luke (http://xrl.us/ftet):
> Cing is going to work quite differently, from what I hear.
> So it might be possible to overload any function to call a
> special version when your type of array is used. You just have
> to write all the special versions.
S
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 04:00:53PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> %num_of_lines = [EMAIL PROTECTED];
>
> : because the Perl 5 way would put a reference to @file in the hash.
> : Scalar context always makes references now, from what I understand.
>
> Interestingly, a stored reference would track t
