Use <{...}>. as the string returned is reinterpreted as a regex, if it consists
of the single quoted string then it's a literal, but you must include the
single quotes in the result returned. E.g.,
<{ my $x = funct($a, $b, $c); "'$x'";}>
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From: "Dave Rolsky"
>That will make it clear
>that there's no way to calculate "one month from today" >using the core API.
"one month from today" is ill-defined regardless what time system you are
using. There are dates from which "one month from today" can be r
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From: Larry Wall
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 02:24:54PM +0100, TSa wrote:
> > My idea is to let a pair numify to whatever the value numifies to.
> > Same thing with stringification. In general I think that a pair should
> > hide its key as far a
oops make that
last if !someCondition();
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> loop {
> doSomething();
> next if someCondition();
> doSomethingElse();
> }
>
> --
> Mark Bigg
loop {
doSomething();
next if someCondition();
doSomethingElse();
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From: "Mark J. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> OK, so let's look at the general problem. The struct
The literals for Bit are just 0 and 1.
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From: "Carl Mäsak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Darren (>):
> > Bit
> > Blob
> > Set
> > Bag
> > Mapping
> >
> > How does one write ano
Supporting multiple levels of infinities, transfinite numbers or even Surreal
Numbers should be considered in the same category of features as returning
multiple answers from complex trig functions.
They're an interesting thing to discuss and experiment with but shouldn't
distract form getting
Let's worry about getting principal values, branch cuts and handling signed
zeros correct before dealing with the interaction of junctions and multi-valued
complex functions.
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Most financial institutions don't use float, rational or fixed point, they just
keep integer pennies.
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-- Original message --
From: Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Would any financial instituti
Carl Mäsak wrote:
John (>):
I'm still in the dark... I find an positions for "manhattan distance" but no
definition of what that is. I did find the alternative pod page earlier.
I don't have a whole answer for you, but a part that may help. What is
generally meant by "Manhattan distance" is s
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From: TSa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> HaloO,
>
> John M. Dlugosz wrote:
> >> Maybe we already have this--see "emulates" in S11.
> > Works for me.
>
> For me, too. But note that we should keep does the ultimate
> type checker that first checks the
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From: "John M. Dlugosz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Jon Lang dataweaver-at-gmail.com |Perl 6| wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> On May 1, 2008, at 0:53 , chromatic wrote
You should look at Common Lisp. it's definition of "optional typing" is that
if you take a correct program and remove all the type declarations, then it
still works correctly, although it may be significantly less efficient. Larry
and i have discussed this and that was his goai in Perl. Now P
Miller, Hugh wrote:
From: Moritz Lenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Technically the Cartesian cross operator doesn't have an
identity value.
It has.
The set which contains only the emty set, or in perl terms ([]);
Or am I missing something?
Should be a (any) 1 point set fo
Technically the Cartesian cross operator doesn't have an identity value. There
is no set X such that
A x X = A. Now any singleton set gives a result that is naturally isomorphic
to the original set, I.e, there is a obvious bijection between the two sets,
but they are not equal sets.
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Cartesain product with the empty set is empty. A x B is the set of all pairs
(a,b) where a is in A and b is in B. If either is empty then there are no such
pairs and the result is also empty.
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Mark J. Reed wrote:
I'm a believer in generalizing where possible, modulo the principles
of KISS and YAGNI. The latter essentially means "at least make it
general enough that you can extend it later without major retooling if
it turns out YNIAA.". It's pretty surprising what can turn out to be
u
I think nearest makes more sense. People will be really surprised when
/1 turns into 0.
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From: TSa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> HaloO,
>
> just re-reading S03 I
Besides ?? !! with out an else part is just &&.
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> Mark J. Reed concluded:
>
> > So I prefer keeping a single construct, but perhaps
Thomas Wittek wrote:
Damian Conway schrieb:
If the very much more readable 'zip' and 'minmax' are
to be replaced with 'ZZ' and 'MM', then I think that's a serious step
backwards in usability.
Fully agree here and I think that there are still even more places,
where the usability could be impro
And you may be forced to deal with NaN and Inf values if you are storing raw
binary float values as they are built into the bit patterns.
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From: "Mark J. Reed" <[EMAIL PROT
-- Original message --
From: "Jonathan Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Mark Biggar wrote:
> > Jonathan Lang wrote:
> > > They can be:
> > >
> > > $A > $B if $A.x > $B.x | $A.y > $B.y;
> > > $A < $B if $A.x < $B.x | $A.y < $B.y;
> >
> > That dosn't work.
>
> Agreed
-- Original message --
From: "Jonathan Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> TSa wrote:
> > Jonathan Lang wrote:
> > > If at all possible, I would expect Complex to compose Num, thus
> > > letting a Complex be used anywhere that a Num is requested.
> >
> > This will not work.
This is the "dog does bark" vs "tree does bark" problem. You can assume that
the two methods "blahh" have naything semantically to do with each other at
all. Unless ther is a specif annotation from the programmer creating the Role
union that they are the same you must assume that they are diff
The documentation should distinguish between those that are just pre-defined
characters classes (E.G., and ) and those that are special
builtins (E.G., and . The former are things that you
should be freely allowed to redefine in a derived grammar, while the other
second type may want to be t
Carl Mäsak wrote:
Hey do you know what would be cool in perl 6
A special variable for when you do a for (@array) style loop
it would always have the index of the array
Discussed on #perl6: it's already quite easy in Perl 6 to loop with an
explicit index:
my @array = ;
for @array.kv -> $i, $v
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From: "Reed, Mark (TBS)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> S03, lines 418-420: "[cmp] always returns C,
> C, or C (which numerify to -1, 0, or +1)."
>
> Shouldn't Order::Increase numerify to +1 and Order::Decrease to -1? In
> which case it would be cl
Darren Duncan wrote:
Now, I didn't see them yet anywhere in Synopsis 3, but I strongly
recommend having negated versions of all these various types of equality
tests. Eg, !== for ===, nev for eqv, etc. They would be used very
frequently, I believe (and I have even tried to do so), and of cour
Austin Hastings wrote:
Gaal Yahas wrote:
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 04:02:35PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
: I'm probably not thinking hard enough, so if anyone can come up
with an
: implementation please give it :) Otherwise, how about we add this to
: the language?
Maybe that's just what reduc
Markus Laire wrote:
ps. Should first element of scan be 0-argument or 1-argument case.
i.e. should list([+] 1) return (0, 1) or (1)
APL defines it as the later (1).
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Austin Hastings wrote:
Gaal Yahas wrote:
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 04:02:35PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
: I'm probably not thinking hard enough, so if anyone can come up
with an
: implementation please give it :) Otherwise, how about we add this to
: the language?
Maybe that's just what reduc
> How about Bag, a set container? Alternately what we really want is
> just a Hash where the type of the value is defined as 1, so it need
> not be stored at all. Then most of the syntax for it just falls out
> of Hash syntax, unless you like writing $x ∈ $bag instead of $bag{$x}.
> Presumably w
Isn't this what POD is for?
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From: "Ruud H.G. van Tol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Perl6 could introduce (lexical, nestable) comment scope.
>
> Has that been discussed before?
David Green wrote:
On 2/23/06, Jonathan Lang wrote:
(Another possibility would be to return a list of every possible
result when in list context, with the result that you'd get in scalar
context being element zero of the list. This even has its uses wrt
sqrt(Num), providing a two-element lis
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From: Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On 2/7/06, Robin Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Any undef undefinedmatch if !defined $a
> > Any Regex pattern matchmatch if $a =~ /$b/
> >
Juerd wrote:
Rob Kinyon skribis 2005-11-23 11:58 (-0500):
I don't use 0..$n-1 very often. I use 0..$#arr most often.
Good point. Doesn't ^5 encourage [EMAIL PROTECTED] too much? After all, we
should
write what we mean, instead of something that happens to evaluate to the
same list. We mean
Alfie John wrote:
Hi (),
This is probably a stupid question, but I can't find anything from google:
Does Perl6 support multiline comments?
Briefly, No and kind of.
Standard Perl 6 comments are just like those in Perl 5. A '#' starts a
comment that is terminated by the end of line. But, bo
Mark A. Biggar wrote:
Damian Conway wrote:
Rather than addition Yet Another Feature, what's wrong with just using:
for @list ¥ @list[1...] -> $curr, $next {
...
}
???
Damian
Shouldn't that be:
for [EMAIL PROTECTED], undef] ¥ @list[1...] -&
Damian Conway wrote:
Rather than addition Yet Another Feature, what's wrong with just using:
for @list ¥ @list[1...] -> $curr, $next {
...
}
???
Damian
Shouldn't that be:
for [EMAIL PROTECTED], undef] ¥ @list[1...] -> $curr, $next {
...
}
As I remember it zip hrows
In a private conversation with Larry this afternoon, he said that by
default "$foo" and ~$foo and $foo.as(Str) all give the same result
(assuming scalar context, etc.). And that "@foo[]" and [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
@foo.as(Str) are the same as join(' ', @foo) where join is effectively:
sub join
Eric wrote:
Hey,
Since you wouldn't expect an object to stringify or numify why expect pairs
to? I'm not sure i see any value in thatm, $pair.perl.say would be the best
way to output one anyway.
my $pair1 = (a => 2);
my $pari2 = (b => 3);
say $pair1 + $par2; # Error: illegal stringification of
Some other possible problems:
1: if $condition is an expression with side-effects then your new construct has
a different meaning then the original code.
2: if the middle part does something that changes the value of the expression
$condition then the new construct again has a different meanin
I think this deserves at least a compile time warning and also a strict pragma
to make it an error as it is most likely not what the programmer wanted.
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> Ingo Blechschmidt skribis 2005-08-31 13:22 (+):
> > @array = $ar
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 08:47:18AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> > : >That could be made to work by defining constant to mean you can assign
> > : >to it if it's undefined. But then it gets a little harder to reason
> > : >about
Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 06:47:41PM -0600, zowie wrote:
There is also a certain joy that comes from noticing that a tool was
designed by pedants:
it's great that cal(1) handles the Gregorian reformation correctly
(or at least, in one
of several arguably correct ways) ev
Mark A. Biggar wrote:
Luke Palmer wrote:
On 8/10/05, Dave Rolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[changing the subject line for the benefit of the summarizer ...]
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Larry Wall wrote:
And now some people will begin to wonder how ugly set values will look.
We should als
Luke Palmer wrote:
On 8/10/05, Dave Rolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[changing the subject line for the benefit of the summarizer ...]
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Larry Wall wrote:
And now some people will begin to wonder how ugly set values will look.
We should also tell them that lists (and pos
Larry Wall wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 06:28:22PM +0200, "TSa (Thomas Sandlaß)" wrote:
: Since we are in type hierachies these days, here's my from ::Any
: towards ::All version.
That's pretty, but if you don't move Junction upward, you haven't
really addressed the question Autrijus is asking
Luke Palmer wrote:
On 14 Jun 2005 06:07:10 -, David Formosa (aka ? the Platypus)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
multi sub infix_circumfix_meta_operator:{'>>','<<'} (Hash %a,Hash %b,Code $op) {
my Hash %return;
for intersection(keys %a,keys %b) -> $key {
%return{$key} = $o
I'm having a hard time coming up eith examples where I need anything otehr than
union and difference for character classes. Most of the predefined character
classes are disjoint, so intersection is almost useless. So for now let's just
stick with + and - and simple sets with not parens, unless
Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
On May 25, Mark A. Biggar said:
Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 11:24:50PM -0400, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
I wish was allowed. I don't see why has to be
confined to zero-width assertions.
I don't either act
Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 11:24:50PM -0400, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
I wish was allowed. I don't see why has to be confined
to zero-width assertions.
I don't either actually. One thing that occurred to me while responding
to your original email was that might h
wolverian wrote:
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 03:44:43PM +0200, Juerd wrote:
But I like the newly suggested "feather" better, as it can relate to
pugs AND parrot.
Feather is best one thus far, I think. I like carrot too; it's more
playful. I equate Pugs with fun a lot.
How about "budgie". a sm
There are actuall two usefull definition for %. The first which Ada calls
'mod' always returns a value 0<=X HaloO Mark,
>
> please don't regard the following as obtrusive.
>
> you wrote:
> > If as usual the definition of a right identity value e is that a op e = a
> > for
> all a,
> > then o
> Mark A. Biggar wrote:
> > Well the identity of % is +inf (also right side only).
>
> I read $n % any( $n..Inf ) == $n. The point is there's no
> unique right identity and thus (Num,%) disqualifies for a
> Monoid. BTW, the above is a nice example where a junction
>
John Macdonald wrote:
Is there a built-in operator that doesn't have a meaningful
identity value? I first thought of exponentiation, but it has
an identity value of 1 - you just have to realize that since
it is a right associative operator, the identity has to be
applied from the right.
Well the i
Stuart Cook wrote:
To summarise what I think everyone is saying, []-reducing an empty
list yields either:
1) undef (which may or may not contain an exception), or
2) some unit/identity value that is a trait of the operator,
depending on whether or not people think (2) is actually a good idea.
The u
Matt Fowles wrote:
All~
What does the reduce metaoperator do with an empty list?
my @a;
[+] @a; # 0? exception?
[*] @a; # 1? exception?
[<] @a; # false?
[||] @a; # false?
[&&] @a; # true?
Also if it magically supplies some correct like the above, how does it
know what that value is?
The usual defin
I don't understand why you think you need the eval here?
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> There is syntax to define trait and properties
> but is there an API?
>
> my $b = eval '$a but true'; # setting a true property
> # API to do it without an eval?
>
No, it's not inconsistant. Think about the simpler case split /a/,'a'
which return a list of empty strings. Now ask to keep the separators
split /(a), 'a' which will return ('', 'a', '', 'a', '', 'a', '', 'a, '',
'a'). Now look at
split /(a)/, 'aaab' which returns ('', 'a', '', 'a', '
> On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 05:48:59PM +1000, Damian Conway wrote:
> : But that's only the opinion of one(@Larry), not of $Larry.
>
> Let's go 0-based and make $0 =:= $/[0] so that $/[] is all the parens.
> Our old $0 (P5's $&) could be $<> instead, short for $ or some
> such.
Why can't bare $/ jus
Can I say $*1, $*2, etc, to get perl5 flattened peren counting captures? We
need something like that to make perl5->perl6 translation easier; otherwise
we'd have to parse perl5 RE instead of just slapping on a ":p5". Unless ":p5"
also means that you get a single already fattened match objct.
Juerd wrote:
Juerd skribis 2005-05-06 18:24 (+0200):
|AVAILABLE any()
We can use this for labels:
|foo| for ... {
while ... {
...;
next foo if ...;
}
}
It'll confuse the heck out of Ruby coders, but I do like this syntax. It
makes
Matt wrote:
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 07:25:10 -0400, Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Matt skribis 2005-04-22 21:55 (-0400):
What about . for each level up you want to go?
instead of 1.say, 2.say, 3.say
you use .say, ..say, ...say
(Ok, I'm just kidding.. really!)
I read your message after I suggested t
Larry Wall wrote:
I should point out that we're still contemplating breaking .foo() so it
no longer means $_.foo(). I wish there were more keys on my keyboard...
I know it's a bit counter-cultural, but at the moment I'm wondering
if we can make this work instead:
given open 'mailto:[EMAIL PROT
Rod Adams wrote:
Ashley Winters wrote:
For documentary purposes, can we make that $radians?
multi sub cos (Num +$degrees) returns Num {
return cos :radians($degrees * PI / 180);
}
my Num $x = cos :degrees(270);
I have changed the trig functions it to have an optional "base"
argument. (I'm opti
stuff & grab :-)
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> On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 10:45:22AM -0500, Austin Hastings wrote:
> : But I'd be willing to rename them to get/put.
>
> If I went with "get", the opposite
Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
Jonathan Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ISAM?
From the RDBMS world, a kind of index I think, or something along
those lines. MySQL for example has a type of table called MyISAM.
Index Sequential Access Method
Invented by IBM in the '60s, provides fast random ac
>OK, there's one non-incremental idea: documentation that you can write
>in one place and display in some completely different order. (Shades of
>literate programming!) And although there are good reasons for keeping
>the docs in the same file as the code, there are equal but opposite
>reason
Sorry I did mean temp.
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> Mark A. Biggar skribis 2004-06-29 9:07 (-0700):
> > Besides we already have MTOWTDI with local() and hypotheticals.
>
> I thought temp replaced local. If not, how do t
Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
Michele Dondi wrote:
I must say I've still not read all apocalypses, and OTOH I suspect that
this could be done more or less easily with a custom function (provided
that variables will have a method to keep track of their history, or, more
reasonably, will be *allowed* t
> Austin Hastings wrote:
> >my int $i = ...; # Fails at compile time -- no good conversion.
> >
> >my Int $i = ...; # Warns at compile time, fails at runtime.
>
> I don't get the reasoning here. If Yada Yada Yada is to indicate code
> that you haven't written yet, it should never fail a
> On 4/19/04 3:58 PM, Austin Hastings wrote:
> One work-around might be an alternate kind of default accessor that doesn't
> allow assignment:
>
> $dog.name # get
> $dog.name('foo') # set
> $dog.name = 'foo' # compile-time error
I think we already have this. Just define a
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
chromatic wrote:
Perl.com has just made A12 available:
I started reading it last night, and ended up going to bed before I was
finished. But I just wanted to say that this:
With this dispatcher you can continue by saying "next METHOD".
is the sort of geni
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
chromatic wrote:
Perl.com has just made A12 available:
I started reading it last night, and ended up going to bed before I was
finished. But I just wanted to say that this:
With this dispatcher you can continue by saying "next METHOD".
is the sort of geni
Another possibility is to use a UTF-8 extended system where you use values over
0x10 to encode temporary code block swaps in the encoding. I.e.,
some magic value means the one byte UTF-8 codes now mean the Greek block
instead of the ASCII block. But you would need broad agreement for that t
Damian Conway wrote:
But that means I have to pre-process data lists that just happen to
contain empty strings so that they won't disappear on me.
Huh? An empty string already *has* disappeared on you. ;-)
> This seems to violate least surprise.
I'd be much more surprised if an empty string *
Damian Conway wrote:
Mark A. Biggar wrote:
What if I want to interpolate an empty string and let the fill
characters work?
Then you interpolate a single fill character instead of the empty string.
But that means I have to pre-process data lists that just happen to
contain empty strings so
Damian Conway wrote:
Mark A. Biggar wrote:
Expect wouldn't that produce a extra blank line if $text is short?
Nope. Formats only generate text lines if at least one of their fields
interpolates at least one character.
Damian
What if I want to interpolate an empty string and let the
Luke Palmer wrote:
Mark A. Biggar writes:
Larry Wall wrote:
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 11:59:15AM -0800, Gregor N. Purdy wrote:
: Smylers --
:
: So, what I'm looking for is more explicit phrasing around "immediately
: above". In the example, the column range for the overflow fie
Larry Wall wrote:
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 11:59:15AM -0800, Gregor N. Purdy wrote:
: Smylers --
:
: So, what I'm looking for is more explicit phrasing around "immediately
: above". In the example, the column range for the overflow field is
: exactly the same as that of the $method field in the pr
OOPS, totally miss-read your code, ignore my first part of my last
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Luke Palmer wrote:
I was reading the most recent article on perl.com, and a code segment
reminded me of something I see rather often in code that I don't like.
Here's the code, Perl6ized:
... ;
my $is_ok = 1;
for 0..6 -> $t {
if abs(@new[$t] - @new[$t+1]) > 3 {
$is_
Austin Hastings wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Luke Palmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 10:23 PM
To: Jeff Clites
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: The Block Returns
Jeff Clites writes:
Speaking to the practical side, I have written code
Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 11:39:20AM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote:
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 04:15:06AM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote:
So the question is: What happens when indexof isn't on the call chain,
but that inner closure is?
But how can the inner closure be called if not
Alex Burr wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luke Palmer) writes:
I would hope the former. However, what about this compile-time
integral power macro[1]?
macro power ($x, $p) {
if $p > 0 {
{ $x * power($x, $p-1) }
}
else {
{ 1 }
}
}
That would hopef
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:26:22PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
Multimethod dispatch?
Assuming I'm not misunderstanding what Adam is after, this has come up
before (I think I asked about value based dispatch a few months back)
and I can't remember if the decision was that MMD didn't exten
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