Damian Conway wrote:
> In other words, this is another example of "Don't use junctions in actions
> with side-effects".
Why not tag functions with side-effects as such (using a trait to that
effect), and then say that short-circuit operators don't short-circuit
when side-effects are involved? Or
Larry wrote:
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 02:40:03PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
: On the original question, I see it more as a junctional issue.
: Assuming we have only chmod($,$), this sould autothread:
:
: unless chmod MODE, all(@files) -> $oops {
: ???;
: profit();
: }
Except
Jonathan Lang wrote:
How important is it that perl 6 maintains the notion that $foo and
@foo are entirely different things?
Very.
Also, there's the matter of "unneccessary paperwork": if the only
thing that I use the return value for is a boolean test, then all of
the effort involved in l
Mark Overmeer wrote:
> * Larry Wall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060327 01:07]:
> > On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 02:40:03PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> > : On the original question, I see it more as a junctional issue.
> > : Assuming we have only chmod($,$), this sould autothread:
> > :
> > : unless chmod MO
* Larry Wall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060327 01:07]:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 02:40:03PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> : On the original question, I see it more as a junctional issue.
> : Assuming we have only chmod($,$), this sould autothread:
> :
> : unless chmod MODE, all(@files) -> $oops {
> :
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 02:40:03PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
: On the original question, I see it more as a junctional issue.
: Assuming we have only chmod($,$), this sould autothread:
:
: unless chmod MODE, all(@files) -> $oops {
: ???;
: profit();
: }
Except that junctional l
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 01:22:18PM +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote:
: On 3/25/06, Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:58:30PM +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote:
: > > 4) "filename".chmod(MODE) should also work and I guess
: > > .chmod(MODE) should also work on those 3 file
* Gabor Szabo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060326 19:26]:
> On 3/26/06, Mark Overmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > LIST = chmod MODE, LIST
> >
> > My feeling is that this function design is a bit of a mistake. Usually,
> > one perl function maps on one operating-system function, but in this case
> > i
On 3/26/06, Mark Overmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > LIST = chmod MODE, LIST
>
> My feeling is that this function design is a bit of a mistake. Usually,
> one perl function maps on one operating-system function, but in this case
> it doesn't: it simulated the common chmod(1) user command.
[..
* Gabor Szabo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060325 09:58]:
> So we had chmod in Perl5, I would like to make sure it works in
> Perl6 as well with slight modifications.
>
> LIST = chmod MODE, LIST
My feeling is that this function design is a bit of a mistake. Usually,
one perl function maps on one operati
Damian Conway wrote:
> One might argue that it would be more useful to return a result object whose
> boolean value is the success or failure, whose numeric and string values are
> the number of files *un*changed, and whose list value is the list of those
> *un*changed files.
>
> Then you could wri
Gabor Szabo wrote:
Hmm, I don't really know how to do this but Gaal told me to
write up some proposal here.
So we had chmod in Perl5, I would like to make sure it works in
Perl6 as well with slight modifications.
LIST = chmod MODE, LIST
1) In list context it would return the names of the file
On 3/25/06, Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:58:30PM +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> > 4) "filename".chmod(MODE) should also work and I guess
> > .chmod(MODE) should also work on those 3 files
>
> That seems to be implying a chmod method on all strings, and al
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:58:30PM +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> 4) "filename".chmod(MODE) should also work and I guess
> .chmod(MODE) should also work on those 3 files
That seems to be implying a chmod method on all strings, and all lists.
Assuming chmod doesn't get special favours, how many m
Hmm, I don't really know how to do this but Gaal told me to
write up some proposal here.
So we had chmod in Perl5, I would like to make sure it works in
Perl6 as well with slight modifications.
LIST = chmod MODE, LIST
1) In list context it would return the names of the files successfully
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