On Thu, 03 Aug 2000, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> Its my maintainence hat on.
>
> Picture some poor shmo, the regular guy is off on his two week vacation,
> in some out the way place without his cell phone. And a production problem,
> or the million dollar client, needs this yesterday.
>
> And he does
Its my maintainence hat on.
Picture some poor shmo, the regular guy is off on his two week vacation,
in some out the way place without his cell phone. And a production problem,
or the million dollar client, needs this yesterday.
And he doesn't notice the use printvoidvalues.
So the previous occ
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> (Walks away shaking head, in wonder and amazement.)
Hey, it took me two weeks to hack the parser into doing this
at work. (Well, to some extent. It isn't module friendly.)
But you may as well kill-file me now, 'cause there are sure to be more.
My Pe
> Let me reiterate my view of pragmas. They can warp the language any
> way you please, as long as they don't impact other modules. I wouldn't
> even mind if someone wrote a pragma that lets you program Perl in Latin.
Now you're just being silly!
;-)
Damianus
Chaim Frenkel writes:
: No.
This sort of argument is not terrilby useful.
Really, I don't see any big problem with the notion of the values of void
expressions being sent somewhere, as long as it's lexically scoped, and
doesn't rely on a global default filehandle. This kind of default
output ha
> "BCW" == Bryan C Warnock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BCW> =head1 ABSTRACT
BCW> Perl 6 should add a new pragma called C.
BCW> =head1 DESCRIPTION
BCW> There should be an C pragma that gives new life and meaning to
BCW> void context constructs. In my case, I want it to print to the default
Jonathan Scott Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 08:54:27PM -0400, Bryan C.Warnock wrote:
> > There should be an C pragma that gives new life and meaning to
> > void context constructs. In my case, I want it to print to the default
> > filehandle, (which is also implicit
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 08:54:27PM -0400, Bryan C.Warnock wrote:
> There should be an C pragma that gives new life and meaning to
> void context constructs. In my case, I want it to print to the default
> filehandle, (which is also implicit, I might add.)
Well, one of the rumors bandied about wa
The librarian address doesn't seem to be working, so I'm injecting this
here.
=head1 TITLE
Request For New Pragma: Implicit
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Bryan C. Warnock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 01 Aug 2000
Version: 1
Mailing List: perl6-language
Number: TBD
=head1 ABSTRACT
