Re: handling undef better

2005-12-17 Thread Sebastian
a win-win. - sebastian On 12/17/05, Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "LP" == Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > LP> Actually, you can think of undef pretty much as defining > LP> autovivification. "If you use it a

Re: handling undef better

2005-12-16 Thread Sebastian
s (something) to to define the behavior of all undefs declared within the given scope. Since each undef is a magic object, it doesn't lose its effect when undef variables are passed to methods enforcing different undef behaviors because it carries the behavior from whence it was defined. On 12

Re: handling undef better

2005-12-16 Thread Sebastian
too. Something like this might translate into executing the sub in a try/catch such that if the undef error occurs, undef is returned - sebastian On 12/16/05, Darren Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Something else I've been thinking about, as a tangent to the > relational da

Re: Hyphens vs. Underscores

2005-11-16 Thread Sebastian
es or says. Looking for some_code_like_this() in a place that uses some-code-like-this() might be troublesome. - sebastian On 11/16/05, Daniel Brockman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not a Lisp weenie. However, I have always preferred > hyphens over underscores, and I

Re: Perl6 perlplexities [was: "Re: $1 change issues..."]

2005-11-04 Thread Sebastian
ty, et al). As long as p6 isn't taking away from any of the functionality or DWIMery I won't have any objections - Sebastian

Re: $_ defaulting for mutating ops

2005-10-25 Thread Sebastian
> I think it'd be great if +=, ~=, +&=, ++, etc, could all assume $_ on > their LHS when there is no obvious operand. It'd be nice to have these, but is it something that can wait? I wouldn't mind if more effort was spent on other pieces if this can be easily done in the future - sebastian

Re: new sigil

2005-10-20 Thread Sebastian
> Please let that the sigil looks like a certain leter not be a reason. > > > Juerd They make for good mnemonics, which isn't necessarily a bad thing for people coming from languages without them or with fewer - sebastian