Re: Getting rid of want()

2009-03-31 Thread Damian Conway
Moritz Lenz wrote: > Instead we should provide a very DWIMmy way to (lazily) create objects > that behave differently in different contexts. That's precisely what the Contextual::Return module does for Perl 5. It's less than perfect in Perl 5, because it has to be implemented via runtime tricker

Re: Getting rid of want()

2009-03-31 Thread Moritz Lenz
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > On 2009 Mar 31, at 17:04, Moritz Lenz wrote: >> We had a discussion on #perl6 tonight about how to implement want(), >> and >> basically came to no conclusion. Then I came up with the idea that any >> lazy implementor will come up with: drop it from the language.

Re: Getting rid of want()

2009-03-31 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2009 Mar 31, at 17:04, Moritz Lenz wrote: We had a discussion on #perl6 tonight about how to implement want(), and basically came to no conclusion. Then I came up with the idea that any lazy implementor will come up with: drop it from the language. Hm, I was under the impression that want(