Re: fast question

2004-07-08 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:46:25AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: : With an array : match, you might find yourself redispatching individual operators in a : switch statement to provide that kind of specificity. In particular, macros with "is parsed" will want to have a place to hang their special parse

Re: fast question

2004-07-08 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 04:49:33AM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote: : Michele Dondi writes: : > On the wild side of things, could there be the possibility of even : > defining new ones? : : That's what I meant by: : : grammatical_category:postcircumfix : : Though it wouldn't be so magical as to jus

Re: fast question

2004-07-08 Thread Luke Palmer
Michele Dondi writes: > On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Luke Palmer wrote: > > > > Are there others, aside from these: ? > > > > > > prefix: a unary prefix operator > > > infix: a binary infix operator > > > postfix:a binary suffix operator > > > circumfix: a bracketing operato

Re: fast question

2004-07-08 Thread Michele Dondi
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Luke Palmer wrote: > > Are there others, aside from these: ? > > > > prefix: a unary prefix operator > > infix: a binary infix operator > > postfix:a binary suffix operator > > circumfix: a bracketing operator > > Tons. From A12: [snip] On the

Re: fast question

2004-07-07 Thread Luke Palmer
David Storrs writes: > On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 06:39:07PM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote: > > Matija Papec writes: > > > > > > Would there be a way to still use simple unquoted hash keys like in old > > > days ($hash{MYKEY})? > > > > Of course there's a way to do it. This is one of those decisions th

Re: fast question

2004-07-07 Thread David Storrs
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 06:39:07PM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote: > Matija Papec writes: > > > > Would there be a way to still use simple unquoted hash keys like in old > > days ($hash{MYKEY})? > > Of course there's a way to do it. This is one of those decisions that I > was against for the longest

Re: fast question

2004-07-06 Thread Luke Palmer
Matija Papec writes: > > Would there be a way to still use simple unquoted hash keys like in old > days ($hash{MYKEY})? > > imho %hash<> at first sight resembles alien ship from > Independence day. :) Of course there's a way to do it. This is one of those decisions that I was against for the