Re: Auto My?

2004-12-18 Thread JOSEPH RYAN
- Original Message - From: Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, December 18, 2004 4:16 pm Subject: Re: Auto My? > Rod Adams writes: > There are pros and cons, and it basically ends up being a design > choice. > > Well, at least when strictures are on. When they are off, the >

Re: Still about subroutines...

2004-09-16 Thread JOSEPH RYAN
- Original Message - From: Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, September 16, 2004 2:55 pm Subject: Re: Still about subroutines... > Jonathan Scott Duff skribis 2004-09-16 13:44 (-0500): > > Speaking of which ... why is it that $?foo and became > $<>> and <> respectively? > > per

Re: Why do users need FileHandles?

2004-07-23 Thread JOSEPH RYAN
I define "outside the core" as "anything that isn't packaged with Perl itself". Things you'd define as "part of the language." I/O stuff, threading stuff, standard types, builtin functions, etc. And yeah, most of that stuff will be written natively in C, PIR, or be part of parrot itself. I thi

Re: Why do users need FileHandles?

2004-07-22 Thread JOSEPH RYAN
- Original Message - From: Dan Hursh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, July 22, 2004 3:07 pm Subject: Re: Why do users need FileHandles? > Luke Palmer wrote: > > > JOSEPH RYAN writes: > > > >>- Original Message - > >>From: David S

Re: xx and re-running

2004-07-22 Thread JOSEPH RYAN
- Original Message - From: James Mastros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, July 18, 2004 5:03 am Subject: xx and re-running > Recently on perlmonks, at > http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=375255, > someone (DWS, actually) brought up the common error of expecting x > (in > particula

Re: Why do users need FileHandles?

2004-07-22 Thread JOSEPH RYAN
- Original Message - From: Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, July 22, 2004 2:48 pm Subject: Re: Why do users need FileHandles? >> JOSEPH RYAN writes: > > > > How would integrating this in the core make it more efficient? Core > > or not, I&#

Re: Why do users need FileHandles?

2004-07-22 Thread JOSEPH RYAN
- Original Message - From: David Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, July 19, 2004 5:04 pm Subject: Re: Why do users need FileHandles? > Second, I would suggest that it NOT go in a library...this is > reasonably serious under-the-hood magic and should be integrated into > the core for

Re: push with lazy lists

2004-07-08 Thread JOSEPH RYAN
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:50:16PM -0400, JOSEPH RYAN wrote: > > To answer the latter first, rand (with no arguments) returns a number > greater than or equal to 0 and less than 1 which when used as an index > into an array gets turned into a 0. > > As to why the second p

Re: push with lazy lists

2004-07-07 Thread JOSEPH RYAN
- Original Message - From: Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, July 7, 2004 11:25 pm Subject: Re: push with lazy lists > On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 09:32:07PM -0500, Dan Hursh wrote: > : how 'bout > : > : @x = gather{ > : loop{ > : take time > : } > : } # can

Re: push with lazy lists

2004-07-03 Thread JOSEPH RYAN
- Original Message - From: Dan Hursh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, July 2, 2004 10:32 pm Subject: Re: push with lazy lists >> Joseph Ryan wrote: > I guess that's true with X..Y lazy lists. I thought there were > other > ways to make lazy lists, like giv

Re: push with lazy lists

2004-07-02 Thread JOSEPH RYAN
- Original Message - From: Dan Hursh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, July 2, 2004 2:23 pm Subject: push with lazy lists > Hi, > > If I can assume: > > @x = 3..5; > say pop @x;# prints 5 > > @x = 3..5; > push @x, 6; > say pop @x;# prints 6 >

Re: if not C<,> then what?

2004-07-02 Thread JOSEPH RYAN
- Original Message - From: David Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, July 1, 2004 7:55 pm Subject: Re: if not C<,> then what? > On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 04:14:37PM -0700, Jonathan Lang wrote: > > Juerd wrote: > > > > If you're really enamoured with the infix operator syntax, > cons

Re: undo()?

2004-07-01 Thread JOSEPH RYAN
- Original Message - From: Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 7:31 pm Subject: Re: undo()? > > Oh no! Someone doesn't understand continuations! How could this > happen?! :-) > > You need two things to bring the state of the process back to an > earlierstate:

Re: A stack for Perl?

2004-06-29 Thread JOSEPH RYAN
- Original Message - From: Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 6:13 am Subject: Re: A stack for Perl? > > 1; > > $_='foo bar baz'; > > split; > > # @STACK now is (1, 'foo', 'bar', 'baz'); > > > To boot, I can't think of a way to implement that in currently

Fwd: Re: OO inheritance in a hacker style

2004-02-04 Thread Joseph Ryan
Woops, sent it to the wrong list! - Joe Joseph Ryan wrote: Luke Palmer wrote: Austin Hastings writes: Hmm. The text and examples so far have been about methods and this seems to be about multi-methods. Correct me if I'm wrong ... You're wrong. Consider my example, where

Re: OO inheritance in a hacker style

2004-01-28 Thread Joseph Ryan
Dmitry Dorofeev wrote: Hi all. Sorry if this idea|question has been discussed or has name which i don't know about. I'd like to write Class myclass : a { forget method area; forget method move; method put; } so methods getX, getY, size will be 'inherited'. Methods 'area' and 'move' will be n

Re: This week's summary

2003-11-25 Thread Joseph Ryan
The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Do Steve Fink's debugging for him Steve Fink had a problem with some generated code throwing a segfault when it was run and, having hit the debugging wall himself, posted the code to the list and asked help. Leo tracked down the bug in Parrot and fixed it.

Re: Control flow variables

2003-11-18 Thread Joseph Ryan
David Wheeler wrote: On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 06:11 PM, Joseph Ryan wrote: Not to be a jerk, but how about: my $is_ok = 1; for @array_of_random_values_and_types -> $t { if not some_sort_of_test($t) { $is_ok = 0; last; } } if $is

Re: Control flow variables

2003-11-18 Thread Joseph Ryan
Damian Conway wrote: Seiler Thomas wrote: So... lets call a function instead: my $is_ok = 1; for 0..6 -> $t { if abs(@new[$t] - @new[$t+1]) > 3 { $is_ok = 0; last; } } if $is_ok { yada() # has sideeffects... } That's just:

Re: Nested modules

2003-11-03 Thread Joseph Ryan
Damian Conway wrote: Larry wrote: This kind of behaviour is more useful for nested classes, I suspect, but it should certainly be available for nested modules as well. So, what's the difference between a module and a class, and why would you want dynamic namespaces? Isn't that something you'd

Re: Nested modules

2003-11-03 Thread Joseph Ryan
Luke Palmer wrote: So, we can have :: in names, but that doesn't represent any inherent relationship between the module before the :: and the one after. I think this is an important thing to keep. However, will it be possible to, for example, do: module Foo; module Bar { ... } And refer

Re: Apocalypses and Exegesis...

2003-08-16 Thread Joseph Ryan
Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 03:00:54PM +0100, Alberto Manuel Brand?o Sim?es wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 14:49, Simon Cozens wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alberto Manuel Brandão simões) writes: The question is simple, and Dan can have the same problem (or him or L