Re: Why no "is ro"? (Re: Subroutine parameter with trait and default.)

2008-09-24 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Sep 24, at 17:45, David Green wrote: On 2008-Sep-23, at 5:27 pm, Michael G Schwern wrote: David Green wrote: Happily, brevity often aids clarity. The rest of the time, it should be up to one's editor; any editor worth its salt ought to easily auto-complete "ro" into "readonly". Ee

Re: Why no "is ro"? (Re: Subroutine parameter with trait and default.)

2008-09-24 Thread David Green
On 2008-Sep-23, at 5:27 pm, Michael G Schwern wrote: David Green wrote: Happily, brevity often aids clarity. The rest of the time, it should be up to one's editor; any editor worth its salt ought to easily auto-complete "ro" into "readonly". Eeep! The "your IDE should write your verbose c

Re: Split with negative limits, and other weirdnesses

2008-09-24 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:38 AM, TSa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HaloO, > Moritz Lenz wrote: > >> In Perl 5 a negative limit means "unlimited", which we don't have to do >> because we have the Whatever star. >> > > I like the notion of negative numbers as the other end of infinity. > Where infini