Re: negated operators and disjunctions (was: Recommended Perl 6 best practices?)

2008-09-14 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Carl Mäsak # on Sunday 14 September 2008 07:18: >die "Unrecognized directive: TMPL_$directive" >   if $directive ne 'VAR' | 'LOOP' | 'IF'; > >One is tempted to assume that this means the same as >"$directive ne 'VAR' || $directive ne 'LOOP' || $directive ne 'IF'", >but it doesn't. Actual

Re: Iterator semantics

2008-09-12 Thread Eric Wilhelm
Hi Larry, # from Larry Wall # on Thursday 11 September 2008 12:13: >So when you put something into a list context, some of the values >will be considered "easy", and some will be considered "hard". >The basic question is whether we treat those the same or differently >from a referential point of