Re: 184 (v3): Perl should support an interactive mode

2000-10-03 Thread Markus Peter
I have to admit though that I somehow doubt that only one applications(psh and perhaps the perldl shell, too) justifies such additions to perl. -- Markus Peter - SPiN GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC 143 (v2) Case ignoring eq and cmp operators

2000-09-26 Thread Markus Peter
fect examples w/in a RFC proposing a way to declare > a function to take it's arguments in infix instead of prefix manner. Well - it only came to the list again as I retired the RFC as most people thought this was not important enough :-) -- Markus Peter - SPiN GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC 184 (v1) Perl should support an interactive mode.

2000-09-01 Thread Markus Peter
available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/psh/ -- Markus Peter - SPiN GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC 143 (v1) Case ignoring eq and cmp operators

2000-08-24 Thread Markus Peter
is a false one, as those > are not functions I still say it looks familiar even if it's a false analogy. Another possibility would be to use cmpi and eqi -- Markus Peter - SPiN GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]

CORE symboltable should behave like any other?

2000-08-23 Thread Markus Peter
this in the tab completion code of the perl shell) to exotic to be fixed? -- Markus Peter - SPiN GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Exception handling [Was: Re: Things to remove]

2000-08-23 Thread Markus Peter
way to cope with a distinction between die and throw but without the distinction we simply do not have the problem. And I definitely do NOT want to have a dozen wrapper modules or whatever till that usage withered away in CPAN in 95% of the modules after 1 year. -- Markus Peter - SPiN GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC 139 (v1) Allow Calling Any Function With A Syntax Like s///

2000-08-23 Thread Markus Peter
I'm not so sure what the advantage of that approach is except that you could overload m and s (which could also be added to use overload)? To me, this looks as if this probably has lots of potential for perl poetry but not for programming... -- Markus Peter - SPiN GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]

New syntactic sugar builtin: in

2000-08-21 Thread Markus Peter
uot;,"bla"); or print "OK!" if $val eq "foo" or $val eq except it's a lot more compact, intuitive to use and readable... -- Markus Peter - SPiN GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]