Recently $larry asked for ideas for better naming
the several states of write access.
There are some tentative thoughts, I like to offer.
Larry Wall wrote:
> That being said, in writing the Perl 6 grammar I keep running into the
> need for rw context variables. I'm getting tired of writing thing
> "DC" == Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DC> On 21/02/07, Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> [Off-list]
DC> Apparently not.
DC> Just pretend I'm not here.
DC> ;-)
we can't pretend as we can sense your mad scientist brain across the big
waters. there ain't enoug
Author: larry
Date: Wed Feb 21 09:25:37 2007
New Revision: 13699
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod
Log:
¥ is replaced by Z. XX becomes simply X and old X must now be spelled X~X.
Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod
Luke Palmer wrote:
% as the "mod" operator is a good example of what you describe.
There's no need for mod to be a symbolic operator: when you read 5 % 3
you say "5 mod 3". Why would we not write "5 mod 3": it is just as
obvious what and how we are doing this operation. And % is uncommon
enough
Thomas Wittek wrote:
Damian Conway schrieb:
If the very much more readable 'zip' and 'minmax' are
to be replaced with 'ZZ' and 'MM', then I think that's a serious step
backwards in usability.
Fully agree here and I think that there are still even more places,
where the usability could be impro
On 2/21/07, Thomas Wittek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Damian Conway schrieb:
> If the very much more readable 'zip' and 'minmax' are
> to be replaced with 'ZZ' and 'MM', then I think that's a serious step
> backwards in usability.
Fully agree here and I think that there are still even more places
Damian Conway schrieb:
> If the very much more readable 'zip' and 'minmax' are
> to be replaced with 'ZZ' and 'MM', then I think that's a serious step
> backwards in usability.
Fully agree here and I think that there are still even more places,
where the usability could be improved:
Say more words
On Feb 20, 2007, at 3:42 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
I think the ¥ and Y operators are going to have to change to
something else.
The current Y has at least four strikes against it:
* It's an ASCII version of a cute Unicode picture, but other
than that,
the picture it doesn't remind
