On 2008-Feb-24, at 2:28 pm, Jonathan Lang wrote:
{ use text; if $a > "49" { say $a } }
...with the result being the same as Perl5's 'if $a gt "49" { say
$a }' (so if $a equals '5', it says '5'). Am I following you? If
so, I'm not seeing what's so exciting about the concept;
The whole poi
Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
> And this contradiction – that being able to declare sugar is
> good, but the way that languages have permitted that so far leads
> to insanity – is what sent me thinking along the lines that there
> has to be some way to make overloading sane. And we all know that
>
At 17:30 + 2/24/08, Luke Palmer wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And I read both very carefully and failed to understand most of it.
I use perl for physics and engineering mostly because I forgot most of my
FORTRAN long ago and perl work
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 04:23:54PM +, Andy Armstrong wrote:
> I've wanted this often. I've also wanted a clean way to lexically supply a
> default target object. For example with HTML::Tiny you often write
>
> my $h = HTML::Tiny->new();
> $h->body($h->head($h->title('FooPage')), $h->body(...
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Something like
>
> path { $app_base_dir / $conf_dir / $foo_cfg . $cfg_ext }
>
> where the operators in that scope are overloaded irrespective of
> the types of the variables (be they plain scalar strings,
> in
On 24 Feb 2008, at 15:00, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
Something like
path { $app_base_dir / $conf_dir / $foo_cfg . $cfg_ext }
I've wanted this often. I've also wanted a clean way to lexically
supply a default target object. For example with HTML::Tiny you often
write
my $h = HTML::Ti
[Cc to perl6-language as I think this is of interest]
[Oh, and please read the entire thing before responding to any
one particular point. There are a number of arguments flowing
from one another here. (I am guilty of being too quick with the
Reply button myself, hence this friendly reminder.)]
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