Re: Are .key and .value right for Pairs?

2001-10-07 Thread Mark Koopman
Damian Conway wrote: >Very nice. And yes, too many brackets of various kinds. >Also $this doesn't really describe what it stores. >Maybe $first would be better? > as i see it, $first describes what is true of the implementation of passing the object reference, but looking at the $this in the f

Re: Semi-OT: Good compiler book?

2001-08-07 Thread Mark Koopman
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Re: what's with 'with'? (was: [aliasing - was:[nice2haveit]])

2001-07-19 Thread Mark Koopman
ure syntax. does anyone else question making aliases like 'with' from 'for'? a 'with' alias could open the door on purely confusing code like this: with( my $i; $i < 10; $i++ ){ ... } instead of having an standard 'with' that only works on objects like this: with( MyObject->new() ) { .setIt("blah"); ... } -- -mark koopman WebSideStory 10182 Telesis Court San Diego CA 92121 858-546-1182 ext 318

Re: Multiple classifications of an object

2001-06-27 Thread Mark Koopman
> > * Objects are bigger since they all need an .ISA property, if we toss the > per-class @ISA > with an accessible .ISA property, are previous instaniated objects 'brought-up-to-speed' with this new behaviour or not? -- Mark Koopman Software Engi

Re: Damian Conway's Exegesis 2

2001-05-16 Thread Mark Koopman
in Hindi? > > Will ebonics be included in this locale thingy? > > p it better, or that's discrimination :| -- #!/usr/local/bin/perl ## Mark Koopman ## Software Engineer ## ## WebSideStory, Inc ## ## 10182 Telesis Court ## San Diego CA 92121 ## 858.546.1182.##.318 ## 858.546.0480.fax

Re: Damian Conway's Exegesis 2

2001-05-15 Thread Mark Koopman
Damian Conway wrote: > Simon observed: > >> On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:30:07PM -0700, Dave Storrs wrote: >> >- A while ago, someone suggested that the word 'has' be an alias >> > for 'is', so that when you roll your own properties, you could write >> > more-grammatically-

Re: Damian Conway's Exegesis 2

2001-05-15 Thread Mark Koopman
rds were merely syntactic sugar for each other. is|are|has|: seem > like far too many ways to express exactly the same concept. > > i think that's the idea...they have similar meanings, so they should do similar things. hey it's the English language, i'll leave it up to s

Re: Apoc2 - concerns

2001-05-07 Thread Mark Koopman
> > > I think Uri's qh() suggestion is the cleanest: > > Interesting train of thought, since one of the ideas was that qw() is > ugly and has to go. (Larry's been saying this for nearly two years now, > it's just that people sometimes don't listen. :) Let's keep it and add > something similarly

Re: Sane "+" string concat proposal

2001-04-24 Thread Mark Koopman
>Perl 5Perl 6 >- >print "Next is " . $i + 1;print "Next is " + $i + 1; this is the root of the problemPerl 5 version is easy to understand, Perl 6 version is still ambiguous

Re: Schwartzian Transform

2001-03-23 Thread Mark Koopman
gt; >-=- James Mastros > -- > The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the > source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, > who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapt in awe, is as good as dead. > -=

Re: JWZ on s/Java/Perl/

2001-02-09 Thread Mark Koopman
this. are we considering to deprecate this type of bad style, and force to a programmer to, in this case, supply a ref to %baz in the arguements to this sub? Mark Koopman Software Engineer WebSideStory, Inc 10182 Telesis Court San Diego CA 92121 858.546.1182.##.318 858.546.0480.fax perl -e '

very basic question

2001-01-29 Thread Mark Koopman
where are all RFCs posted for perl6? is this the main discussion board for perl6 development, or has the development broken down into separate group-lists? if it's broken down, where would i find a listing of lists? thanks much, Mark Koopman Software Engineer WebSideStory, Inc