Re: Perl6 -- what is in a name?

2002-01-28 Thread Stephane Payrard
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Garrett Goebel wrote: > From: Brent Dax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Aaron Sherman: > > # > > # I think the first guy that gets hired to maintain Perl6 code, > > # and think "hey, I know Perl, no sweat" will disagree with > > # you. > > > > I disagree. He'll see stuff he

Re: Perl 6 - Cheerleaders?

2001-10-29 Thread Stephane Payrard
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Michael G Schwern wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:27:39AM +1100, Damian Conway wrote: > > The $64K question then being: can I call it like so: > > > > ($obj1, $obj2)->foo(@args); > > Is that merely sugar for: > > # errr, $_.foo(@args) ? > $_->foo(@args) for

A3: hyper operators with operand of different size

2001-10-04 Thread Stephane Payrard
Hyper operators with operands of different size are partly covered in A3: Hyper operators will also intuit where a dimension is missing from one of its arguments, and replicate a scalar value to a list value in that dimension. That means you can say: @a ^+ 1 The former example a pa