As I sailed into Shadow, a white bird of my desire came and sat upon my
right shoulder, and I wrote a note and tied it to its leg and sent it on
its way. The note said, "I am coming," and it was signed by me.
...
The sun hung low on my left and the winds bellied the sails and
Larry Wall wrote:
Dave Whipp wrote:
: A slightly tangental thought: is the behavior of C with no block
: defined? I.e. is
It would be illegal syntax currently.
As I understand it, the proposal is to say that if the parser finds a
';' where it was expecting to find a control block, it treats th
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:14:44PM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote:
> However, I do think that it's useful to be able to treat the rest of
> the current scope as a block (usually with a parameter), for certain
> kinds of closure-heavy code.
Maybe this is a case for one of Mr. Lang's custom semicolons with
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:59:35AM -0700, Dave Whipp wrote:
: Jonathan Lang wrote:
:
: >Close. I'm thinking "added functionality for semicolon alternatives"
: >rather than the "replace the semicolon" stunt that Semi::Semicolons
: >pulls. In particular, as long as there's no ambiguity between
: >
On 5/15/07, Dave Whipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A slightly tangental thought: is the behavior of C with no block
defined? I.e. is
given $foo { when 1 {...} };
equivalent to
given $foo;
when 1 {...};
Doubtful.
However, I do think that it's useful to be able to treat the rest of
the current
Jonathan Lang wrote:
Close. I'm thinking "added functionality for semicolon alternatives"
rather than the "replace the semicolon" stunt that Semi::Semicolons
pulls. In particular, as long as there's no ambiguity between
prefix: and postfix:, I think that it would be quite useful for
postfix: t
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 10:48:34PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
: No one mentioned that if it wasn't for sigils, many strings would be
: increased, length-wise, to do operator concatentation. If it wasn't for
: that then simple string insertions couldn't be used.
Well, except you can interpolate
