On Fri, 04 Aug 2000 00:47:06 -0500, J. David Blackstone wrote:
> As another example, at work we are in love with the $/ variable,
>since we often deal in multi-line records delimited with control-Y's.
>However, changing this variable affects _everything_, meaning modules
>you want to use might
Perl6 RFC Librarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:
: =head2 Disadvantages
:
: Literally none have been broached on the various C mailing lists.
Potential disadvantage, depending on implementation:
The loss of distinctiveness. Right now, when one sees a $
variable, they notice its specialness an
Thus it was written in the epistle of Tom Christiansen,
> >Has having $ and its riends caused trouble
> >for you?
>
> Only embarrassment at explaining it.
While I only use one ^Form (and I suspect that that is true of most
programmers), I still remember the thrill at discovering that the one ^
>Has having $ and its riends caused trouble
>for you?
Only embarrassment at explaining it.
--tom
Thus it was written in the epistle of Tom Christiansen,
>
> If we were selecting dubious features to shoot (and I think we are),
> then the fact that $^F and $ are the same is one I'd kill--by zapping
> the latter, too.
I'm afraid I couldn't argue very convincingly against it, though I'd be tru
On Fri, 04 Aug 2000, Peter Scott wrote:
> The punctuation versions do at least have the merit of i18n :-) I don't
> see any "use French" scripts out there yet...
>
I had a tentative 'use Arabic;' module, but couldn't figure out how
they'd say "setuid". (Plus, my Arabic skills have drastically
>Thus it was written in the epistle of Perl6 RFC Librarian,
>>
>> =head2 Disadvantages
>>
>> Literally none have been broached on the various C mailing lists.
>Well, I'll take my shot at providing one: An at least %800 increase in the
>characters used to make up these names. For quick hacks,
Before jumping in on this, keep in mind that Larry Wall has already
stated his intent to just plain _eliminate_ many of these special
variables. Most of them suffer from the "action-at-a-distance"
problem, meaning you change something somewhere and unexpected changes
occur elsewhere.
For exa
At 12:26 AM 8/4/00 -0400, Ted Ashton wrote:
>Thus it was written in the epistle of Perl6 RFC Librarian,
> >
> > =head2 Disadvantages
> >
> > Literally none have been broached on the various C mailing lists.
>
>Well, I'll take my shot at providing one: An at least %800 increase in the
>characters
Thus it was written in the epistle of Perl6 RFC Librarian,
>
> =head2 Disadvantages
>
> Literally none have been broached on the various C mailing lists.
Well, I'll take my shot at providing one: An at least %800 increase in the
characters used to make up these names. For quick hacks, this is
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