On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 06:05:10PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
:
: On 2004-06-14 at 22:58:58, Matthew Walton wrote:
: > 'it would be better to explicitly just say
: >
: > (@list.grep value) = undef
: >
: > although I think that might be supposed to be
: >
: > (@list.grep value) »= undef;
:
: Th
Well, I'd speak up
for intentionally allowing some silly alternatives
except that's IMO unnecessary.
With all the apparently-wonderful new possibilities
which we'll soon have
(OK, maybe not as soon as we'd like),
it seems most likely
that some will turn out to be silly.
George "tim toady"
On Mo
Mark J. Reed wrote:
On 2004-06-14 at 22:58:58, Matthew Walton wrote:
'it would be better to explicitly just say
(@list.grep value) = undef
although I think that might be supposed to be
(@list.grep value) »= undef;
Those do different things according to my understanding. The first
removes all matc
On 2004-06-14 at 22:58:58, Matthew Walton wrote:
> 'it would be better to explicitly just say
>
> (@list.grep value) = undef
>
> although I think that might be supposed to be
>
> (@list.grep value) »= undef;
Those do different things according to my understanding. The first
removes all matchi
Austin Hastings wrote:
Perhaps we could consider the junctive lvalues as a sort of implied
?= operation:
junction(@list) = value
means
unless junction(@list) == value
{
given junction {
when 'none' { (@list.grep value) = undef; }
when 'any' { for 0 .. random(@list) { @
--- Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:34:15 +1100
> From: "Damian Conway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add to Address Book
> To: "Language List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Semantics of vector operations (Damian
Scott wrote:
I'm just waiting for Damian to speak up :-)
I'm not at all comfortable with the notion of junctions as lvalues.
I've *always* considered a junction to be a special kind of constant, just as
a number or a string or a reference is.
I have trouble with junctive lvalues because I think t
Austin Hastings writes:
> With Larry's new "vectorized sides" suggestion, putting a guillemot on
> the right side of the operator ...
Austin, we've been through this before -- kindly return that guillemot
to wherever you picked it up from. It's hassle enough having unicode in
Perl, without us al
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:28:42PM -0500, Austin Hastings wrote:
> > From: Jonathan Scott Duff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:10:23PM -0500, Austin Hastings wrote:
> > > In reverse order:
> > >
> > > > %languageometer.values ?+= rand;
> > >
> > > This is the same as
>
Luke Palmer writes:
> > (1,2,3,4,5) +Â foo() # Maybe the same as above? What does
> > infix:+(@list,$scalar) do?
>
> Well, what does a list return in scalar context? In the presence of the
> C comma, it returns 5 for the last thing evaluated. In its absence, it
> returns 5 for the lengt
Austin Hastings writes:
> > Sortof. I think Larry was implying that rand returned an infinite list
> > of random numbers in list context. If not, then what he said was wrong,
> > because it would be sick to say that:
> >
> > (1,2,3,4,5) Â+Â foo()
> >
> > Calls foo() 5 times.
>
> Why would
> -Original Message-
> From: Luke Palmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 3:52 PM
> To: Austin Hastings; Larry Wall; Language List
> Subject: Re: Semantics of vector operations (Damian)
>
>
> Jonathan Scott Duff writes:
> > On T
Jonathan Scott Duff writes:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:10:23PM -0500, Austin Hastings wrote:
> > In reverse order:
> >
> > > %languageometer.values Â+= rand;
> >
> > This is the same as
> >
> > all( %languageometer.values ) += rand;
> >
> > right?
Well, yes. It's also the same as e
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:10:23PM -0500, Austin Hastings wrote:
> In reverse order:
>
> > %languageometer.values ?+= rand;
>
> This is the same as
>
> all( %languageometer.values ) += rand;
>
> right?
It's the same as
$r = rand;
$_ += $r for %languageometer.values
> -Original Message-
> From: Jonathan Scott Duff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 1:16 PM
> To: Austin Hastings
> Cc: Larry Wall; Language List
> Subject: Re: Semantics of vector operations (Damian)
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004
> -Original Message-
> From: Larry Wall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 12:50 PM
> To: Language List
> Subject: Re: Semantics of vector operations
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 03:57:26AM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> : * Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-
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