y, which I count as a point in its favor.
In true metaoperator form, you could presumably throw other operators
between the backwards brackets for other chunky operators. I haven't
really thought through what I would want multislice addition ( ]+[ )
or multislice equality testing ( ]==[
Hello all!
In reading S06 from the svn repository I had some questions about the
use of prefix:<*> in different contexts. When used in an argument list,
it forces pairs to be interpreted as named args. When used in a
parameter list, it causes slurpiness.
It seems to me like these are relat
Luke Palmer wrote:
> However, what do we do about:
>
> while $x-- && some_condition($x) {}
>
> Here, while is being passed a hash, not a do-nothing code. Should we
> force people to write:
>
> while $x-- && some_condition($x) {;}
Do we still have a yada yada yada? Could it be used to d
Hello!
If roles are interfaces, do we want any class that provides an interface
consistent with a role to implicitly do the role? That is, if a class
fulfills all of the interface requirements of a role without actually
saying it does the role, does it do the role anyway?
role Documente
Larry Wall wrote:
Of course, there are other words that are somewhat synonymous with
"class", Unfortunately "sort" is already hosed. Maybe "kind".
Then evolutionists could make jokes about the K(T) boundary, and
creationists could make jokes about "reproducing after their kind".
Some of us coul
TSa wrote:
IIRC, $Larry has mentioned a Pipe type which to me seems to be
just the generic type where you configure the buffer/queue size.
In multi-threaded (or connected processes) applications the buffer
size needs tuning to balance responsiveness with throughput. Thus
your gather proposal cou
