On 2009 Jan 30, at 11:30, Larry Wall wrote:
So I'm open to suggestions for what we ought to call that envelope
if we don't call it the prelude or the perlude. Locale is bad,
environs is bad, context is bad...the wrapper? But we have dynamic
wrappers already, so that's bad. Maybe the setting, l
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:11:42AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 08:30:25AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> > So anyway, just because other languages call it a prelude doesn't
> > mean that we have to. Perl is the tail that's always trying to
> > wag the dog...
> >
> > Wha
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 08:30:25AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> So anyway, just because other languages call it a prelude doesn't
> mean that we have to. Perl is the tail that's always trying to
> wag the dog...
>
> What is the sound of one tail wagging?
For my dog Sally, the sound of one tail wag
Larry Wall wrote:
> So I'm open to suggestions for what we ought to call that envelope
> if we don't call it the prelude or the perlude. Locale is bad,
> environs is bad, context is bad...the wrapper? But we have dynamic
> wrappers already, so that's bad. Maybe the setting, like a jewel?
> That
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Larry Wall wrote:
> We want something that comes
> outside your program, that is, a lexical scope that *surrounds* the
> file scope. We don't have a good word for that: circumlude? ambilude?
>[...]
> Or we could go with a more linguistic contextual metaphor. A
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:49:13AM +0100, Carl Mäsak wrote:
: Mark (>), Moritz (>>), Larry via commit bot (>>>):
: >>> +PERL# Lexical symbols in the standard "perlude"
: >>
: >> Did you mean "prelude" instead?
: >
: > I took the quotation marks to indicate an intentional
: > misspelling
Mark (>), Moritz (>>), Larry via commit bot (>>>):
>>> +PERL# Lexical symbols in the standard "perlude"
>>
>> Did you mean "prelude" instead?
>
> I took the quotation marks to indicate an intentional
> misspelling/coinage: "perl" + "prelude" = "perlude".
At which point one might ask o
I took the quotation marks to indicate an intentional
misspelling/coinage: "perl" + "prelude" = "perlude".
On 1/29/09, Moritz Lenz wrote:
> pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote:
>> +PERL# Lexical symbols in the standard "perlude"
>
> Did you mean "prelude" instead?
>
> Moritz
>
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pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote:
> +PERL# Lexical symbols in the standard "perlude"
Did you mean "prelude" instead?
Moritz
Author: lwall
Date: 2009-01-29 02:53:54 +0100 (Thu, 29 Jan 2009)
New Revision: 25102
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod
Log:
[S02] reserve PERL and FILE lexical scope names
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod
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--- docs/
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