On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:52:04 -0600, Thom Boyer wrote (in part):
Thom> On 10/20/05, Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 2. How can it be typed with X character composition, vim's digraphs
>> and major international keyboards?
For X11 composition, where getting into compose state is up to your X
e
that's
equivalent to what C does. Since C doesn't really have strings, and Perl
does, this is just one of those differences between the languages where
(essentially, and perhaps abusing some linguistics theory and terminology)
you've run into a 'false cognate'.
Hope this he
iscussion's getting complicated enough without making
mistaken claims about what p5 currently does, even when that's by accident.
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Nat> if ($a == $b)
Nat> Is that string comparison or numeric comparison?
Consider that case in particular when $a and $b are each
dual-valued (valid as both string and number).
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broutine is an action should be a verb." I nominate
->STRINGIFY. It's a verb, even though it's a neologism, and it's
handier to type than the equivalent ->MAKE_STRING would be. It's
also sufficiently mnemonic for those of us who've read the
existing Perl d
ubname = caller(0)->{subname}; # hashref context
Don't forget Larry's propsed syntax (which is related to the possibility
of getting rid of typeglobs):
\%myhash = \%yourhash;
which would seem to lead to
\%hashname = call(); # hashref context
>>>>> On Fri, 4 Aug 2000 16:33:41 -0700, Damien Neil wrote (in part):
Damien> On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 04:39:24PM -0400, Spider Boardman
Damien> wrote:
>> The C (POSIX.1) remove() function is NOT just unlink() in
>> drag.
Damien> Not everywhere, at least
if its argument is a directory, and
unlink() otherwise.
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been rough consensus after all, but
it should serve to help keep from re-hashing *all* of the same old ground
over again.
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