Re: Beating string numerification to death [Was: Re: the handiness of undef becoming NaN (when you want that)]

2001-10-25 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:30:00AM +1000, Damian Conway wrote: > > Glenn wrote: > >> > Have I missed anything? >> >> Perhaps you've missed one thing. >> >>[snip] >> >> Perl 6 could provide a pragma to produce a warning on the first >> run-time auto-numerificat

Re: Beating string numerification to death [Was: Re: the handiness of undef becoming NaN (when you want that)]

2001-10-25 Thread Larry Wall
Aaron Sherman writes: : On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:30:00AM +1000, Damian Conway wrote: : > : > Glenn wrote: : > : >> > Have I missed anything? : >> : >> Perhaps you've missed one thing. : >> : >>[snip] : >> : >> Perl 6 could provide a pragma to produce a warning o

Re: Beating string numerification to death [Was: Re: the handiness of undef becoming NaN (when you want that)]

2001-10-25 Thread Glenn Linderman
Larry Wall wrote: > Aaron Sherman writes: > : On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:30:00AM +1000, Damian Conway wrote: > : > > : > Glenn wrote: > : > > : >> > Have I missed anything? > : >> > : >> Perhaps you've missed one thing. > : >> > : >>[snip] > : >> > : >> Perl 6 coul

Re: Beating string numerification to death [Was: Re: the handiness of undef becoming NaN (when you want that)]

2001-10-25 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:42:15AM -0700, Glenn Linderman wrote: > So then the lexically scoped operator:+ wouldn't be able to achieve > the goal of my suggested implicit numerification warning... the goal > being the ability to ensure that there are no implicit numerifications, > that all numeri

Re: Beating string numerification to death [Was: Re: the handiness of undef becoming NaN (when you want that)]

2001-10-25 Thread Glenn Linderman
Aaron Sherman wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:42:15AM -0700, Glenn Linderman wrote: > > > So then the lexically scoped operator:+ wouldn't be able to achieve > > the goal of my suggested implicit numerification warning... the goal > > being the ability to ensure that there are no implicit num

Perl 6 - Cheerleaders?

2001-10-25 Thread Garrett Goebel
Piers Cawley has written a nice article entitled: "Perl 6 : Not Just For Damians". If the hair on the back of your neck rises when thinking about Perl 6, or even if it doesn't... give it a read. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/10/23/damians.html

Re: Perl 6 - Cheerleaders?

2001-10-25 Thread Uri Guttman
> "GG" == Garrett Goebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GG> Piers Cawley has written a nice article entitled: "Perl 6 : Not GG> Just For Damians". GG> If the hair on the back of your neck rises when thinking about GG> Perl 6, or even if it doesn't... give it a read. GG> http://www.pe