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2015-02-28 Thread Juerd Waalboer
nd regards, // Korajn salutojn, Juerd Waalboer TNX

Re: What is the "self pragma"?

2008-04-12 Thread Juerd Waalboer
Korajn salutojn, Juerd Waalboer: Perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://juerd.nl/sig> Convolution: ICT solutions and consultancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Nomenclature Question - BEGIN etc.

2008-04-10 Thread Juerd Waalboer
My suggestion: consequential blocks -- Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards, Korajn salutojn, Juerd Waalboer: Perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://juerd.nl/sig> Convolution: ICT solutions and consultancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Nomenclature Question - BEGIN etc.

2008-04-10 Thread Juerd Waalboer
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH skribis 2008-04-10 19:41 (-0400): > On the other hand, that may be the answer right there: "when-blocks". No, this is a when block: when /foo/ { ... } :) -- Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards, Korajn salutojn, Juerd Waalboer: Perl hacker <

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14489 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-01-10 Thread Juerd Waalboer
antics, but do give Bufs support for transparent en-/decoding, and perhaps even unicode semantics. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards, Korajn salutojn, Juerd Waalboer: Perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://juerd.nl/sig> Convolution: ICT solutions and consultancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Concerns about "{...code...}"

2007-12-21 Thread Juerd Waalboer
sing the code. Unpaid non-opensource code usually stays at ""... My excuse is growing up with BASIC. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards, Korajn salutojn, Juerd Waalboer: Perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://juerd.nl/sig> Convolution: ICT solutions and consultancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Factoring Arguments

2007-12-21 Thread Juerd Waalboer
cumfix:<" "> := "e:.assuming(:!c); Hm, would the following work? given "e:.assuming(:!c) -> &circumfix:<" "> { ... } -- Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards, Korajn salutojn, Juerd Waalboer: Perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: perl 6 grammar

2007-12-06 Thread Juerd Waalboer
review current standards for method > declaration; last I'd checked, the invocant did not need to be > explicitly named. It does if you want to access it by a name other than a lone sigil. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards, Korajn salutojn, Juerd Waalboer: Perl hacker <[EMAI

Re: xml and perl 6

2007-11-29 Thread Juerd Waalboer
XML type would only serve to antiquate Perl 6 long before > it's time (!), and is therefore a ... nonstarter. Amen. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards, Korajn salutojn, Juerd Waalboer: Perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://juerd.nl/sig> Convolution: ICT solutions and consultancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Ternary endweight alternative?

2007-06-29 Thread Juerd Waalboer
l way.) And this ambiguity is, IMO, more than enough reason to disallow this. As for the end weight problem, try formatting the thing in three lines like I do. That quickly makes it readable again: system $?OS eq any ?? 'cls' !! 'clear'; This puts "system

Re: Web Module (Was: Perl6 new features)

2007-06-25 Thread Juerd Waalboer
d this by default, because it would make it easier for vendors to choose to use Perl in their base system. It would also make Perl a more attractive choice for embedded systems. -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://juerd.nl/sig> convolution:

Re: Web Module (Was: Perl6 new features)

2007-06-21 Thread Juerd Waalboer
standards (Web, POD, ...), this is our one chance to get it right, for the next two decades. This said, I don't think Web should be core. It should be the *first* web toolkit for Perl 6, though. -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http

Re: Referring to source code within Perldoc: the new A<> code

2007-06-21 Thread Juerd Waalboer
e gained by pre-empting this and picking > something initially. I disagree very strongly. -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://juerd.nl/sig> convolution: ict solutions and consultancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Referring to source code within Perldoc: the new A<> code

2007-06-21 Thread Juerd Waalboer
o ever have consistent, semantic, structured OO documentation throughout CPAN (and numerous in house projects), we must start with Perl itself, and there isn't the option of having this tool be third party. -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://ju

Re: POD <-> Code entanglement

2007-06-14 Thread Juerd Waalboer
ld still generate it from something else. A few macros could help ignore the inline documentation. -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://juerd.nl/sig> convolution: ict solutions and consultancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Generalizing ?? !!

2007-06-11 Thread Juerd Waalboer
Zev Benjamin skribis 2007-06-11 0:57 (-0400): > ?? and !! could always return some kind of result object that boolizes > to true or false. Can we *please* keep simple things simple? -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://juerd.nl/sig

Re: PERL arrays

2007-06-05 Thread Juerd Waalboer
.html I couldn't find how to loop over multidimensionally shaped arrays; maybe you can and maybe someone can show an example. ...Are you sure you were asking about Perl 6? -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://juerd.nl/sig> convoluti

Re: propose renaming Hash to Dict

2007-05-31 Thread Juerd Waalboer
Dictionaries are usually alphabetically ordered. Hashes are not. -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://juerd.nl/sig> convolution: ict solutions and consultancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: .perl, nested arrays, parens and a bug with .perl after hyperop

2007-05-20 Thread Juerd Waalboer
his does not work with pugs, so I don't know if I am wrong, or pugs is wrong. -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://juerd.nl/sig> convolution: ict solutions and consultancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Sigils by example

2007-05-14 Thread Juerd Waalboer
Thomas Wittek skribis 2007-05-15 1:52 (+0200): > Would it be a good idea to call methods on objects, that never thought > of this methods? Absolutely! Roles can be used for that too. -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://juerd.nl/sig

Re: Is Perl 6 too late?

2007-05-14 Thread Juerd Waalboer
k a language needs a good balance between symbols and letters comma and for a programming language comma I think alternating between the two is close to a perfect balance comma whereas in human languages once, every $few (words) is.probably; "period" -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl

Re: Sigils by example (was: Re: Is Perl 6 too late?)

2007-05-14 Thread Juerd Waalboer
list context: my @quux = (@foo, @bar); # These arrays "foo" and "bar" flatten my @quux = ($foo, $bar); # These arrays "foo" and "bar" do not That's a subtle yet very useful distinction. But this is "just" very handy, not important. --

Re: Sigils by example

2007-05-14 Thread Juerd Waalboer
ng style. And since my preferred style is different, I'm glad you're not designing Perl 6. -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://juerd.nl/sig> convolution: ict solutions and consultancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Is Perl 6 too late?

2007-05-14 Thread Juerd Waalboer
se if we had line \ continuation characters in here, it would suddenly look a lot \ different. Did you, while reading this, pause, just before "different"? -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://juerd.nl/sig> convolution: ict solutions and consultancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Sigils by example (was: Re: Is Perl 6 too late?)

2007-05-14 Thread Juerd Waalboer
put" be? The Perl Way: %count $input (or %count input) looks wrong, error caught even before compile time, programmer time and energy conserved. | And how on earth would you write "object.foo()", where foo is a variable | holding a reference to a method, not the name of the method, if you had | no sigils? The Perl Way: $object.foo() calls the method called "foo". $object.$foo() calls the method that is in the variable $foo. -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://juerd.nl/sig> convolution: ict solutions and consultancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Is Perl 6 too late?

2007-05-14 Thread Juerd Waalboer
h: Perl is very hard to read for someone who doesn't know Perl well enough. But that's practically true for almost language, be it Python or Japanese. -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://juerd.nl/sig> convolution: ict solutions and consultancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: What should file test operators return?

2007-04-13 Thread Juerd Waalboer
f needs a boolean output template, but it would be nice if it were configurable. -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://juerd.nl/sig> convolution: ict solutions and consultancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14357 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-03-28 Thread Juerd Waalboer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skribis 2007-03-28 13:17 (-0700): > +block) early using the C verb. More precidely, it leaves the precisely? -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://juerd.nl/sig> convolution: ict solutions and consultancy <[EMA

Re: lexical subs

2007-03-09 Thread Juerd Waalboer
Juerd Waalboer skribis 2007-03-09 21:27 (+0100): > Just a short note: please, if this is implemented, make sure that either > Perl 6 conforms to Perl 5 behaviour, or the other way around. Wanted to CC this list, but by accident replaced the To instead. Now CC'ing p5p. -- kora

Re: lexical subs

2007-03-09 Thread Juerd Waalboer
Just a short note: please, if this is implemented, make sure that either Perl 6 conforms to Perl 5 behaviour, or the other way around. -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://juerd.nl/sig> convolution: ict solutions and consult

Re: [S09] "Whatever" indices and shaped arrays

2007-03-06 Thread Juerd Waalboer
ojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://juerd.nl/sig> convolution: ict solutions and consultancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ik vertrouw stemcomputers niet. Zie <http://www.wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/>.

Re: for ... else

2007-03-03 Thread Juerd Waalboer
Thomas Wittek skribis 2007-03-03 23:17 (+0100): > Larry Wall: > > : if ($item = 'foobar') { > == of course ;) Or how about eq? :) -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://juerd.nl/sig> convolution: ict solutions