--- Brent Dax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I suggest that we might require a special property to say "dispatch
> on return value", which would give us a place to put in some
> information to resolve conflicts.
In keeping with the notion of "a language for good programmers," I
think that the ver
Dan Sugalski wrote:
> There's also the fun of:
>
> Dog bar(int);
> Cat bar(int);
>
> and
>
> xyzzy(Dog);
> xyzzy(Cat);
>
> with the call of:
>
> xyzzy(bar(1));
>
> Just one of the many brain-benders that I'm glad Larry has to deal
> with, not me. (Though this may be one
Garrett Goebel:
# From: Brent Dax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
# > Actually, I was thinking C, though a junction of all
# > the possible contexts might be good too. Remember, want()
# > is more than just scalar/array now.
#
# sure, sure...
#
# I was ambiguously referring back to Dan's example, we
From: Brent Dax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Garrett Goebel:
> # Brent Dax wrote:
> # >
> # > This is also a problem with using want().
> # >
> # > If we don't provide wants_scalar/wants_list, someone will
> # > build it with want(), so we might as well try to address
> # > it. I suggest that wan
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:15:48AM -0800, Brent Dax wrote:
> Dan Sugalski:
> # Okay, I think I remembered the problem. Assume the following:
> #
> # list bar(int); # bar takes an int, returns a list
> # scalar bar(int); # bar takes an int, returns a scalar
> #
> # and also assume the f
At 10:02 AM -0800 1/24/03, Austin Hastings wrote:
--- Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 7:30 AM + 1/24/03, Piers Cawley wrote:
>In my quest to eliminate as many explicit conditionals from my code
as
>possible, I found myself wondering if Perl 6's multidispatch
mechanism
>would
Garrett Goebel:
# Brent Dax wrote:
# >
# > This is also a problem with using want().
# >
# > If we don't provide wants_scalar/wants_list, someone will
# > build it with want(), so we might as well try to address
# > it. I suggest that want() return a special value when
# > the calling context is
From: Dan Sugalski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Okay, I think I remembered the problem. Assume the following:
>
> list bar(int); # bar takes an int, returns a list
> scalar bar(int); # bar takes an int, returns a scalar
>
> and also assume the following:
>
> xyzzy(scalar); # xyz
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:02:13AM -0800, Austin Hastings wrote:
> --- Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > At 7:30 AM + 1/24/03, Piers Cawley wrote:
> > >In my quest to eliminate as many explicit conditionals from my code
> > as
> > >possible, I found myself wondering if Perl 6's multid
Dan Sugalski:
# At 7:30 AM + 1/24/03, Piers Cawley wrote:
# >In my quest to eliminate as many explicit conditionals from
# my code as
# >possible, I found myself wondering if Perl 6's multidispatch
# mechanism
# >would allow one to write:
#
# Okay, I think I remembered the problem. Assume
--- Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 7:30 AM + 1/24/03, Piers Cawley wrote:
> >In my quest to eliminate as many explicit conditionals from my code
> as
> >possible, I found myself wondering if Perl 6's multidispatch
> mechanism
> >would allow one to write:
>
> Okay, I think I reme
At 7:30 AM + 1/24/03, Piers Cawley wrote:
In my quest to eliminate as many explicit conditionals from my code as
possible, I found myself wondering if Perl 6's multidispatch mechanism
would allow one to write:
Okay, I think I remembered the problem. Assume the following:
list bar(int);
--- Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In my quest to eliminate as many explicit conditionals from my code
> as
> possible, I found myself wondering if Perl 6's multidispatch
> mechanism
> would allow one to write:
>
>sub gmttime ( $time = time() ) is in_scalar_context {
> strfti
At 7:30 AM + 1/24/03, Piers Cawley wrote:
In my quest to eliminate as many explicit conditionals from my code as
possible, I found myself wondering if Perl 6's multidispatch mechanism
would allow one to write:
sub gmttime ( $time = time() ) is in_scalar_context {
strftime( $perls_def
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