Re: RFC 339 (v1) caller->eval BLOCK

2000-10-02 Thread Greg Williams
At 18:43 -0500 2000/10/02, David L. Nicol wrote: >Hmm. C could be implemented in terms of the rfc 340 C like >so: > > $scope_out_here = with; > if ($ints) { > with $scope_out_here {use integer} > }; > >C is about subroutine calls. Interesting! I have a few questions (meandering thoug

Re: RFC 357 (v1) Perl should use XML for documentation instead ofPOD

2000-10-02 Thread Greg Williams
gt;XML files are text files, as I said above, but even less than HTML >are they meant to be read by humans. They are text files, because >that allows experts (such as programmers) to more easily debug >applications, and in emergencies, they can use a simple text editor >to fix a bro

Re: RFC 339 (v1) caller->eval BLOCK

2000-09-30 Thread Greg Williams
On Sep 30 2000 22:38:58, Perl6 RFC Librarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >=head1 ABSTRACT > >C is extended to allow complete access to the "call frame" of >the current subroutine call. > would this be better suited by the previously proposed (i'm not sure for perl6 though) C pragma? Loo