Re: 6PAN Spec question

2008-12-19 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
Btw, looks like I was wrong about the terminology of CPAN6/6PAN/whatever. See link below for details (the new Terminology section). http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/docs/Perl6/Spec/S22-package-format.pod :) - | Name: T

r24508 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2008-12-19 Thread pugs-commits
Author: wayland Date: 2008-12-20 04:44:08 +0100 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) New Revision: 24508 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S22-package-format.pod Log: Added some definitions Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S22-package-format.pod === --- docs/Per

r24506 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2008-12-19 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2008-12-20 03:06:20 +0100 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) New Revision: 24506 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod Log: [S19] random annotations for [particle]++'s consideration Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod =

r24504 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2008-12-19 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2008-12-19 23:58:28 +0100 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) New Revision: 24504 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S12-objects.pod Log: [S12] clarify $obje...@candidates for moritz_++ Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S12-objects.pod === ---

r24501 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2008-12-19 Thread pugs-commits
Author: particle Date: 2008-12-19 23:06:58 +0100 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) New Revision: 24501 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod Log: [spec] updates to notes, and minor clarifications Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod ===

r24493 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2008-12-19 Thread pugs-commits
Author: pmichaud Date: 2008-12-19 19:35:40 +0100 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) New Revision: 24493 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S26-documentation.pod Log: Add note at top that the current S26 draft is known to be out-of-date with respect to current design. Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S26-documentation.pod ==

Re: Support for ensuring invariants from one loop iteration to the next?

2008-12-19 Thread Jon Lang
Like I said: if the goto approach works for you, more power to you. Me, I find: loop { @stuff = grep { $_->valid } @stuff; TEST: last unless @stuff; $_->do_something( ++$i ) for @stuff; } to be at least as straightforward as: goto INVARIANT; while ( @stuff ) {

Re: Support for ensuring invariants from one loop iteration to the next?

2008-12-19 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Jon Lang [2008-12-19 03:50]: > Personally, it doesn’t strike me as being as straightforward > as putting a “last unless” clause into the middle of an > otherwise-infinite loop You have to keep more state in your head to read while(1) { # ... last if $foo; } than to rea