On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 18:09:07 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>Precision is a useful thing with bigfloats so something like 1/3 doesn't
>chew up all your available memory.
1/3 would better be represented as a ratio, 1 over 3.
We've been here before, haven't we?
Ratio's, or whatever you'd want to
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 20:55:07 +1000 (EST), Damian Conway wrote:
>Would you like to clarify what you mean here.
>Are you talking about typeglob assignments?
>Perl 6 will have:
>
> $Foo::{'$bar'} = \$baz; # Alias $Foo::bar to $baz
Are we back to "globals only"? What about lexical alia
> "BL" == Bart Lateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BL> On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 20:55:07 +1000 (EST), Damian Conway wrote:
>> Would you like to clarify what you mean here.
>> Are you talking about typeglob assignments?
>> Perl 6 will have:
>>
>> $Foo::{'$bar'} = \$baz;# Ali
> > $Foo::{'$bar'} = \$baz; # Alias $Foo::bar to $baz
>
> Are we back to "globals only"? What about lexical aliases? Something
> like:
>
> my \%foo = \%bar;
I've always wondered why the backslash operator wasn't lvaluable. (IIRC, C++'s &
operator is semi-lvaluable.) IM(V)HO
