Re: Indirect objects, adverbial arguments and whitespace

2007-10-08 Thread Dr.Ruud
Markus Laker schreef: > If I've got this right: > > mangle $foo :a;# mangle($foo, a => 1); > mangle $foo: a;# $foo.mangle(a()); > > So these -- > > mangle $foo:a; > mangle $foo : a; > > are ambiguous and, as far as I can tell from the synopses, undefined. > So what's the rule: that ind

Re: Some questions about using NaN and Inf

2007-10-08 Thread brian d foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, TSa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only operator that can be used to investigate these values should > be ~~ and the given/when statement that uses it. Why should that be true? What's wrong with treating it as an object like anything else? The trick is limitin

Re: Some questions about using NaN and Inf

2007-10-08 Thread Doug McNutt
At 11:52 +0200 10/8/07, TSa wrote: >HaloO, > >My understanding is that values like NaN or Inf are exceptional. That >means you can understand them as unthrown or in-band exceptions. Like >undef they might contain interesting information about their >origination. That being said I think these except

Re: Some questions about using NaN and Inf

2007-10-08 Thread TSa
HaloO, brian d foy wrote: So, then, back to the question. People don't care how it's implemented (and it would be great if we didn't have to explain it). What's the idiom for the comparison going to be? My understanding is that values like NaN or Inf are exceptional. That means you can underst