Re: Why lexical pads

2004-09-25 Thread Jeff Clites
On Sep 25, 2004, at 10:27 PM, Larry Wall wrote: On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 10:01:42PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: : We've also said that MY is a pseudopackage referring to the current : lexical scope so that you can hand off your lexical scope to someone : else to read (but not modify, unless you are cur

Re: S5 updated

2004-09-23 Thread Jeff Clites
On Sep 23, 2004, at 5:27 PM, Edward Peschko wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 08:15:08AM -0700, Jeff Clites wrote: >>> >>> just like the transformation of a string into a number, and from a >>> number to a string. Two algorithmically different thin

Re: S5 updated

2004-09-23 Thread Jeff Clites
On Sep 22, 2004, at 5:06 PM, Edward Peschko wrote: How do you do that? Generation and matching are two different things algorithmically. yes, but they are intimately linked. just like the transformation of a string into a number, and from a number to a string. Two algorithmically different thing

Re: Returning from Rules

2004-05-03 Thread Jeff Clites
On Apr 19, 2004, at 12:06 AM, Luke Palmer wrote: Therefore, the first syntax can be redefined to evaluate the code block and assign the result to $0. Would you ever want to leave $0 unaltered? That's the only concern which comes to mind. My argument for using this notation stems from the fact th

Re: The Block Returns

2003-10-02 Thread Jeff Clites
Speaking to the practical side, I have written code that has to disentangle itself from the failure of a complex startup sequence. I'd love to be able to build a dynamic exit sequence. (In fact, being able to do &block .= { more_stuff(); }; is way up on my list...) I've wanted to do that sort of