Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation

2000-08-02 Thread Michael Stevens
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 08:00:57PM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote: > >Doesn't print 'GLOB' for me, but that's because a lot of real-world systems > ^^ > >haven't hit 5.6.0 (I'm guessing, not absolutely sure that's the cause), > If you

Re: RFC stuff

2000-08-02 Thread Michael Stevens
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 08:13:08PM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote: > >> Making us subscribe to infinite lists to wear us down? > >You know about perl6-all, right? > Nope, I didn't. > Which is the very problem of which I was speaking. > Secret cabals and all. It was publicly announced, although the

Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation

2000-08-02 Thread Michael Stevens
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 06:28:47PM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote: > >I'd also like some 'what are you' introspection I can do on all scalars, on > >a more formal basis than 'ref'. Either an expansion of the 'ref' functionality > >to cover filehandles, or a more general system... > What do you mean

Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation

2000-08-02 Thread Michael Stevens
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 02:51:20PM -0400, John Porter wrote: > Peter Scott wrote: > > Filehandles should use C<*> as a type prefix if typeglobs are eliminated. > I missed previous discussion of this (if there was any), > but it's an idea I've already thought about. > It has my vote, fwiw. I have