> > Me:
> [$foo is bar] can change the value of $foo.
>
> > Damian:
> Yes. For example:
> my $foo is persistent;
>
> Could you explain this further please?
The programmer has specified a property named 'persistent'.
The programmer has marked the
> > What I was suggesting was to consider broadening what the
> > $foo : bar style postfix sub syntax allows/assists bar to do,
> > so that bars can be used to set properties OR do other stuff.
> >
> What's the practical utility of this?
1. Simplification for perl 6 implementation. I would expec
> What I was suggesting was to consider broadening what the
> $foo : bar style postfix sub syntax allows/assists bar to do,
> so that bars can be used to set properties OR do other stuff.
>
What's the practical utility of this? This discussion has been pretty
abstract so far... It's easy to see ho
> Me:
[$foo is bar] can change the value of $foo.
> Damian:
Yes. For example:
my $foo is persistent;
Could you explain this further please?
> Me:
$foo : bar baz is roughly equivalent to baz(bar($foo))
> Damian:
Err. No. That would be:
