Re: Apo 12

2004-04-23 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 04:46:39PM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote: : Prototyping in P6 would seem to me to be easy, but not quite the : default. You'd want an intermediary that did the MetaClass negotiation : as you "derived" from an existing object. Or will that be in the core? : Can you say: : :

Re: Apo 12

2004-04-22 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 12:18, Larry Wall wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 11:44:24AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > : For that they leave it to lambda.weblogs.com to heap *educated* scorn > : and derision on things. :) > > Hmm, well, in all their educatedness, they don't seem to have figured > out t

Re: Apo 12

2004-04-19 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 01:19:36PM -0400, John Siracusa wrote: : On 4/19/04 11:11 AM, Larry Wall wrote: : > On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 01:12:58PM -0400, Austin Hastings wrote: : > : If it's not totally obvious to everyone, you should download a copy of A12 : > : (I like the "printer-friendly" all-in-o

Re: Apo 12

2004-04-19 Thread John Siracusa
On 4/19/04 11:11 AM, Larry Wall wrote: > On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 01:12:58PM -0400, Austin Hastings wrote: > : If it's not totally obvious to everyone, you should download a copy of A12 > : (I like the "printer-friendly" all-in-one-page version) as a hedge against > : the almost-inevitable slashdott

Re: Apo 12

2004-04-19 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 11:44:24AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: : For that they leave it to lambda.weblogs.com to heap *educated* scorn : and derision on things. :) Hmm, well, in all their educatedness, they don't seem to have figured out that the prototyping behavior they're looking for is actuall

Re: Apo 12: Space in method calls

2004-04-19 Thread Abhijit A. Mahabal
> No, obviously arguments. Okay, I see the problem. What you're missing > is that in an earlier Apocalypse, we said that postfix subscripts > and argument lists may not have an intervening space. Oh, I see. Yes, I had missed that. Thanks for clearing that up. --Abhijit

Re: Apo 12: Space in method calls

2004-04-19 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 10:37:57AM -0500, Abhijit A. Mahabal wrote: : > $obj.meth, -> obviously not arguments : > $obj.meth $foo,$bar -> obviously arguments : > : : $obj.meth() + $bat -> obviosly not arguments : $obj.meth () + $bat

Re: Apo 12

2004-04-19 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 8:11 AM -0700 4/19/04, Larry Wall wrote: On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 01:12:58PM -0400, Austin Hastings wrote: : If it's not totally obvious to everyone, you should download a copy of A12 : (I like the "printer-friendly" all-in-one-page version) as a hedge against : the almost-inevitable slashdotting

Re: Apo 12: Space in method calls

2004-04-19 Thread Abhijit A. Mahabal
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Larry Wall wrote: > On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 01:07:44PM -0500, Abhijit A. Mahabal wrote: > : $obj.method ($x + $y) + $z > : > : >From the earlier examples (like $obj.method +1), I got the impression that > : you look ahead until you find a term or an operator. In the example a

Re: Apo 12

2004-04-19 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 01:12:58PM -0400, Austin Hastings wrote: : If it's not totally obvious to everyone, you should download a copy of A12 : (I like the "printer-friendly" all-in-one-page version) as a hedge against : the almost-inevitable slashdotting. Or not... Perhaps slashdot has decided t

Re: Apo 12: Space in method calls

2004-04-19 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 01:07:44PM -0500, Abhijit A. Mahabal wrote: : I do not understand one of the examples in the Use of methods/the dot : notation section: : : $obj.method ($x + $y) + $z : : >From the earlier examples (like $obj.method +1), I got the impression that : you look ahead until you

Apo 12: Space in method calls

2004-04-17 Thread Abhijit A. Mahabal
I do not understand one of the examples in the Use of methods/the dot notation section: $obj.method ($x + $y) + $z >From the earlier examples (like $obj.method +1), I got the impression that you look ahead until you find a term or an operator. In the example above, isn't ($x + $y) a full term, al

Apo 12

2004-04-17 Thread Austin Hastings
If it's not totally obvious to everyone, you should download a copy of A12 (I like the "printer-friendly" all-in-one-page version) as a hedge against the almost-inevitable slashdotting.