Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets

2004-12-05 Thread Richard J Cox
On Thursday, December 2, 2004, 10:08:31 AM, you (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Austin Hastings wrote: >> How about just having C< system() > return a clever object with .output and >> .err methods? > interesting... > Michele Prior art of this on Windows... http:/

Re: Protocols

2003-07-26 Thread Richard J Cox
On Thursday, July 24, 2003, 5:45:33 PM, you (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 08:49 AM, David Wheeler wrote: > No, I think Java interfaces are a kluge to get around copying a broken > type system and the lack of multiple inheritance. There are other alternatives..

Re: arrays, hashes unified indexing syntax impact on future varia tion s on other collection types

2003-02-02 Thread Richard J Cox
On Thursday, January 30, 2003, 7:44:42 PM, you (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 13:13, Garrett Goebel wrote: > Let me switch that one around for you: > class MyContainer { > method index($object) { ... } # index by any scalar object > method ind

Re: L2R/R2L syntax

2003-01-18 Thread Richard J Cox
On Friday, January 17, 2003, 6:35:47 PM, you (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 06:21:43PM +, Simon Cozens wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mr. Nobody) writes: >> > I have to wonder how many people actually like this syntax, and how many only >> > say they do because it's D

Re: L2R/R2L syntax (was Re: Everything is an object.)

2003-01-13 Thread Richard J Cox
On Friday, January 10, 2003, 9:05:42 PM, you (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Universe 2 (pro-unicode): "If we had a Unicode 'squiggly arrow' operator, > then however it looks on everybody's display, it ought to at least look like > some kind of squiggly arrow." U+21DC "Leftwards Squiggle Arr

Re: how to code a lazy pipeline?

2002-12-11 Thread Richard J Cox
On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, 1:26:41 PM, you (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 12/10/2002 4:54 AM, Me wrote: >> How would one most nicely code what I'll call >> a lazy pipeline, such that the first result >> from the final element of the pipeline can >> appear as soon as the first result has

Re: What can be hyperoperated?

2002-01-28 Thread Richard J Cox
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Cozens) wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 04:52:53PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > > Perhaps we shouldn't be using ; for this. > > Given hyperoperators, I wonder if we can actually drop map. Something like @res = ^{ DoSomething($a) }, @sou

Re: Apoc4: The loop keyword

2002-01-26 Thread Richard J Cox
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Scott Duff) wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 11:57:25AM +0100, Bart Lateur wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 15:43:07 -0500, Damian Conway wrote: > > > > >What we're cleaning up is the ickiness of having things declared > > outside > > >t

RE: Taking bakcups of a files in directory structure

2001-12-22 Thread Richard J Cox
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brent Dax) wrote: > krish: > # I am a beginner in Perl and have a very trivial query. I have > # some .expect [...] > > This is the wrong group for this sort of question. perl6-internals is s/internals/language/ but the rest does apply (it's