On Monday 07 November 2005 03:51 pm, Juerd wrote:
> Andrew Rodland skribis 2005-11-07 13:30 (-0500):
> > If you want to get into personal beliefs, I think that function
> > signatures are such a complexity quagmire -- and that they're line-noise
> > ugly to boot
On Monday 07 November 2005 09:26 am, Rob Kinyon wrote:
> On 11/7/05, Michele Dondi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Rob Kinyon wrote:
> > > So, for a bit of extra complexity, I get peace of mind for myself and
> > > my users.
> >
> > The point being, and I'm stressing it once agai
On Monday 22 August 2005 04:25 pm, Larry Wall wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 04:09:29AM +0800, Yiyi Hu wrote:
> [stuff]
> : Even if making scalar lazy might cause problem sometimes, Is it
> : possible to add a property which is like
> : my $var is lazy; to handle these situation?
>
> In Perl 6 yo
On Thursday 19 May 2005 10:51 pm, Sam Vilain wrote:
> Edward Cherlin wrote:
> > Here is the last answer from Ken Iverson, who invented reduce in
> > the 1950s, and died recently.
> > file:///usr/share/j504/system/extras/help/dictionary/intro28.htm
>
>[snip]
>
> Thanks for bringing in a little h
On Tuesday 12 April 2005 07:42 am, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 03:42:25PM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote:
> > > I'm not even sure I like the *possibility* of using non-ascii letters
> > > in identifiers, even.
> >
> > I think we already have Latin-1 in identifiers...
>
> more's the
On Monday 04 April 2005 06:34 pm, Juerd wrote:
> Terrence Brannon skribis 2005-04-04 18:45 (+):
> > So, to avoid confusion with the common understanding of flattening in
> > Perl, perhaps it should be called spreading or distributing.
>
> I agree.
>
> Likewise, "slurping" is probably best expla
On Monday 28 March 2005 05:48 pm, Craig DeForest wrote:
> The problem with using the units(1) database is that it only deals with
> multiplicative relations -- so, e.g., it won't handle temperature.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ units
2084 units, 71 prefixes, 32 nonlinear units
Among those "nonlinear unit
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 07:18 pm, Thomas A. Boyer wrote:
> Larry Wall wrote:
> >Somebody needs to talk me out of using A..Z for the simple cases.
> >
> >Larry
>
> [ <> for array dimension placeholder ]
> That might confuse users of languages that were not
> C-syntax-influenced, who think that
On Wednesday 14 July 2004 12:58 pm, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
> Andrew Rodland wrote:
> > So if we have @x = [1, 3, 5, 6 .. 9, 10 .. Inf, 42];
>
> ...
>
> > 42 is just one number, so questions of indexing
> > it are moot, but its "distance&quo
just one number, so questions of indexing
it are moot, but its "distance" from the left is Inf. So, there's no way to
access the 42 by any positive index of @x, and no way to ever get it by
successive "shift". Overall I suggest
(all code is sequential)
$a = shift @x; # $
On Tuesday 11 May 2004 10:13 pm, Larry Wall wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 08:31:55PM -0400, Andrew Rodland wrote:
> : On Tuesday 11 May 2004 08:00 pm, Pedro Larroy wrote:
> : > Hi
> : >
> : > Is there any chance that in perl6 there will be the possibility to
> :
On Tuesday 11 May 2004 08:00 pm, Pedro Larroy wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is there any chance that in perl6 there will be the possibility to write
> if/else statements without {}s with the condition at the beginning?
>
> Like
>
> if (condition)
> statement;
>
> In order not to break traditional C culture
On Thursday 30 January 2003 06:49 pm, Andrew Rodland wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 January 2003 09:52 pm, Rick Delaney wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 01:54:10PM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 12:38 PM, Smylers wrote:
> > I'd als
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 09:52 pm, Rick Delaney wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 01:54:10PM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
> > On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 12:38 PM, Smylers wrote:
> > > That would make the rule very simple indeed:
> > >
> > > Assigning C to an array element causes that
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On Tuesday 21 January 2003 07:16 am, Simon Wistow wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 12:14:29PM +0100, K Stol said:
> > LUA seems to be a very nice language, but how is this language to be
> > used? Is it in combination with a C program one would write?
On Friday 10 January 2003 11:42 am, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Damian Conway said:
> > Andy Wardley wrote:
> >> The arrow is a special case. I don't read that first character
> >> as '-', I think of the operator as one. I guess the visual cue forces
> >> me to see it like that.
> >
> > I'm suggesting
On Thursday 09 January 2003 01:01 pm, Thom Boyer wrote:
> If you read ~> and <~ as "stuff this thingy into that doohicky", assignment
> makes perfect sense. They are plumbing connectors: sometimes they connect
> the water softener to the water heater (one device to another), and
> sometimes they co
On Monday 14 October 2002 20:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Are Inf and NaN going to be standard in Perl 6? As long as we're traveling
> down that road, how about i (the square root of -1), or Lukasiwiscean Null?
> (Sorry if I sound sarcastic, I'm actually honestly curious.)
>
After much fighting
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 16:33:31 -0600 (MDT), Luke Palmer said:
> You know, the idea that square brackets are the only things that can
> make lists is starting to really appeal to me. Similar for squiggles
> and hashes. I don't know how many times in my early Perl5 days I did
> this:
> Since we no
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