Aaron Sherman writes:
: On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 19:49, Larry Wall wrote:
: > David M. Lloyd writes:
: > : On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Sam Vilain wrote:
: > :
: > : > I can't count the number of times I've had to do something like:
: > : >
: > : > if (defined $foo and $foo ne "bar") { }
: > : >
: > : > t
On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 19:49, Larry Wall wrote:
> David M. Lloyd writes:
> : On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Sam Vilain wrote:
> :
> : > I can't count the number of times I've had to do something like:
> : >
> : > if (defined $foo and $foo ne "bar") { }
> : >
> : > to avoid my program writing garbage to ST
David M. Lloyd writes:
: On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Sam Vilain wrote:
:
: > I can't count the number of times I've had to do something like:
: >
: > if (defined $foo and $foo ne "bar") { }
: >
: > to avoid my program writing garbage to STDERR.
:
: Of course you will now be able to say:
:
: if ($foo
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Sam Vilain wrote:
> I can't count the number of times I've had to do something like:
>
> if (defined $foo and $foo ne "bar") { }
>
> to avoid my program writing garbage to STDERR.
Of course you will now be able to say:
if ($foo // "" ne "bar") { }
Right?
- D
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Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> An off-the-wall thought... If this is not the "expected" condition,
> should it have the extra meaning of an assertion? For example,
> could set $! to 'defined $foo but $foo eq ""' and, if -w was in use,
> issue 'warn "Exceptional condition: $!"'
Intere
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote:
> Sam> No, "but" is syntactically equivalent to "and" in English. It just
> Sam> implies that the second condition is not generally what you'd
> Sam> expect if the first was true.
> Maybe in the interest of huffman encoding, we could make it
> "even_
On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 09:01, Sam Vilain wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 06:50:13 -0600
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:30:11PM +, Sam Vilain wrote:
> > > I think Perl 6 should have a "but" keyword, as in:
> > > if (defined $foo but $foo eq "") {
> > *scratches head*
>
At 09:47 AM 2/21/2002 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>"Randal L. Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Sam> No, "but" is syntactically equivalent to "and" in English. It
>Sam> just implies that the second condition is not generally what
>Sam> you'd expect if the first was true.
>
>Randal> Mayb
It can't be that confusing at first glance if English dedicates a slot
way up in the huffman table to the word, eh?
print "; "
if ($need_eol but $current_column < 21);
OTOH, this might become an "and grep-not" operator for (was it
Damian?)'s quantum operators:
@y = all(@x) but { /^anti/ }
"Randal L. Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sam> No, "but" is syntactically equivalent to "and" in English. It
Sam> just implies that the second condition is not generally what
Sam> you'd expect if the first was true.
Randal> Maybe in the interest of huffman encoding, we could make
Randal>
> "Sam" == Sam Vilain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sam> No, "but" is syntactically equivalent to "and" in English. It just
Sam> implies that the second condition is not generally what you'd expect if
Sam> the first was true.
Maybe in the interest of huffman encoding, we could make it "even_t
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 06:50:13 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:30:11PM +, Sam Vilain wrote:
> > I think Perl 6 should have a "but" keyword, as in:
> > if (defined $foo but $foo eq "") {
> *scratches head*
> so... it negates the left side, then ANDs it with the right?
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:30:11PM +, Sam Vilain wrote:
> I think Perl 6 should have a "but" keyword, as in:
>
> if (defined $foo but $foo eq "") {
*scratches head*
so... it negates the left side, then ANDs it with the right?
also, it seems to be rather vague to me.
in order to sound clear
I think Perl 6 should have a "but" keyword, as in:
if (defined $foo but $foo eq "") {
}
:-)
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