On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 06:31:24AM -0600, Luke Blanshard wrote:
> David Storrs wrote:
> >Out of curiosity, why are we all spelling 'subject' without a 'c'?
> >Or is 'subjet' a word I'm not familiar with? (Honest question.)
>
> I assume it's a spelling error on the part of the original poster.
> F
David Storrs wrote:
Out of curiosity, why are we all spelling 'subject' without a 'c'?
Or is 'subjet' a word I'm not familiar with? (Honest question.)
I assume it's a spelling error on the part of the original poster.
French for "subject" is "sujet" (IIRC), and "subjet" looks like a cross
between
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 12:48:32PM -0800, Ashley Winters wrote:
>
> sub canon( $subjet, $complement)
> -> $s = $subjet{$*Global}, $c = $complement
> {
> my @foo = ...;
> for @foo -> $bar; $remaining = @foo.elems {
> # $bar contains an element, $remaining contains the number of
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 21:05:20 +0100, Stéphane Payrard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyway the particular length of variables names was not the subject of
> my mail, but a good syntax for aliasing name in signatures.
Hmm... how about abducting the -> operator and using default variable
initializatio
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:55:39PM +0100, Juerd wrote:
> Stéphane Payrard skribis 2005-01-07 21:23 (+0100):
> > > my $s := $subjet;
> > > my $c := $complement;
> > That's what I wanted to avoid.
>
> Why? Do you expect to use lots of one letter aliases?
>
> I think it's one of the most e
Luke Palmer wrote:
Well, it'll still get that bad rap because it's as syntactically
flexible as ever (moreso even), so people have all the freedom they want
to write code ugly as sin.
Anyway, if you want to see more Perl 6 syntax, why don't you post some
"how do I"s to the list, and I'll reply with
Stéphane Payrard skribis 2005-01-07 21:23 (+0100):
> > my $s := $subjet;
> > my $c := $complement;
> That's what I wanted to avoid.
Why? Do you expect to use lots of one letter aliases?
I think it's one of the most effective ways to kill readability.
Juerd
StÃphane Payrard writes:
> > canon( subjet => $mysub, complement => $mycomp );
> > canon( :subjet($mysub) :complement($mycomp) );
>
> I suppose you meant
>
> canon( :subjet($mysub), :complement($mycomp) );
The comma is optional between those kinds of pairs.
> btw, are the parenthes
