Re: Pre-RFC: undef =~ s/def/initialize/

2000-09-09 Thread John Porter
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > uninit looks like a typo for "unit". > > Maybe we need "denit" for "de-nitialize" :)... Yuck. I dislike "de-" anything. "un-" is far more often the correct prefix. Anyway, the counterpart of "init" should be, I think, "exit". But seriously, the opposite of "ini

Re: Beefier prototypes (was Re: Multiple for loop variables)

2000-09-09 Thread Chaim Frenkel
> "PS" == Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> for ($x,$y,$z) (@a1,@a2,4..12,@a4) { ... } >> >> Probably we'll have to say that the user must explicitly zip if that >> is what is desired. PS> Yes, please. I view the flattening of lists as a feature, not a bug, and PS> it has made Pe

Re: Beefier prototypes (was Re: Multiple for loop variables)

2000-09-09 Thread Chaim Frenkel
> "DC" == Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> my_while { pred() } { # don't gimme no Tcl flac. >> ... >> } # no semicolon needed here! DC> Just added to the RFC :-) How would the parser handle this? Some '}' would need ';' some don't. -- Chaim Frenkel

Re: RFC 52 (v2) List context return from filesystem functions

2000-09-09 Thread Chaim Frenkel
Would returning the array of status be sufficient? @foo = chmod 755, "bar", "baz", "quux"; # @foo == (0, 2, 0); How to convert them to error messages would be a challenge. Unless passing them through $! would do the trick. Hmm, perl -wle '$!=3; print $!' No such process Yup, w

Re: RFC 52 (v2) List context return from filesystem functions

2000-09-09 Thread Peter Scott
At 01:26 AM 9/10/00 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote: >Would returning the array of status be sufficient? > > @foo = chmod 755, "bar", "baz", "quux"; > # @foo == (0, 2, 0); > >How to convert them to error messages would be a challenge. >Unless passing them through $! would do the trick.