Re: A proposal for separable verbs.

2003-01-27 Thread Piers Cawley
Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- "Joseph F. Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If the final design stays the way it is now, there really won't be >> a "lexer". Instead, a perl6 grammar parses the data, and builds up >> a huge match-object as it, well, matches. This match object

RE: A proposal for separable verbs.

2003-01-23 Thread Austin Hastings
--- Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Brent Dax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Except that none of the other ones exist in Perl 6. :^) > Thinking about this some more, and considering the desirability of lazy evaluation, I think incremental execution might be the right way. (Al

Re: A proposal for separable verbs. (Was: Re: A proposal on if and else)

2003-01-20 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Austin Hastings) writes: > Let's support separable verbs. That (http://dev.perl.org/perl6/rfc/309.html) is a really good idea. -- Writing software is more fun than working.

RE: A proposal for separable verbs. (Was: Re: A proposal on if and else)

2003-01-20 Thread Austin Hastings
--- Brent Dax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Austin Hastings: > # Let's support separable verbs. > # > # Here's how: > # > # # Note my arbitrary selection of _ as separation indicator. > # Feel free to replace this with something more appropriate: > # > # sub if($test, &block) > # _ elsif

RE: A proposal for separable verbs. (Was: Re: A proposal on if and else)

2003-01-20 Thread Brent Dax
Austin Hastings: # Let's support separable verbs. # # Here's how: # # # Note my arbitrary selection of _ as separation indicator. # Feel free to replace this with something more appropriate: # # sub if($test, &block) # _ elsif ($test, &block) is optional is floating is multi # _ elsun