Re: Perl, the new generation

2001-09-07 Thread H . Merijn Brand
On Fri 11 May 2001 16:31, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:55:42AM +0100, Graham Barr wrote: > > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 07:40:04PM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > > By far most of my use of typeglobs is making aliases, and then mostly > > > for code: >

Re: What's up with %MY?

2001-09-07 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Friday 07 September 2001 12:56 am, Ken Fox wrote: > "Bryan C. Warnock" wrote: > > Generically speaking, modules aren't going to be running amok and making > > a mess of your current lexical scope - they'll be introducing, possibily > > repointing, and then possibly deleting specific symbols > >

Re: What's up with %MY?

2001-09-07 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:13 AM 9/7/2001 -0400, Ken Fox wrote: >Damian Conway wrote: > > "3, 1, 3" is the correct answer. > >That's what I thought. Dan's not going to be happy. ;) Well, it means a fetch by pad entry rather than use of a cached PMC pointer, but that's OK by me. I have a solution for this that I'm p

Re: LangSpec: Statements and Blocks

2001-09-07 Thread raptor
will the iterator variable be available in map, grep, join...etc... I was also wondering if the join syntax be extended in a way that it can support preffix and suffix... what i have in mind ... not necesary but : #pair join ($prefix => $suffix), @ary; so : my $select = join (qq{} => '

Re: LangSpec: Statements and Blocks

2001-09-07 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Friday 07 September 2001 03:22 pm, raptor wrote: > will the iterator variable be available in map, grep, join...etc... Iterators haven't been defined yet, so it's hard to tell. For map and grep, it's certainly feasible, depending on their implementation - although neither are truly iterators.

Re: LangSpec: Statements and Blocks

2001-09-07 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:22:49PM +0300, raptor wrote: > I was also wondering if the join syntax be extended in a way that it can > support preffix and suffix... what i have in mind ... not necesary but : > #pair > join ($prefix => $suffix), @ary; > > so : > my $select = join (qq{} =>