Re: perl6-language Digest 1 Jul 2002 04:15:15 -0000 Issue 442

2002-07-02 Thread peter allen
Sorry, but I gotta put in a couple of comments which are basically subjective and don't realy need discussion. So, just for consideration: /^pat$/ /^pat\n?$/# ^ and $ mean string /^pat$/m /^^pat$$/ # no more /m /\A...(^pat$)*...\z/m /^..

Re: Perl 6 Summary

2002-07-02 Thread Erik Steven Harrison
-- On 02 Jul 2002 09:56:46 +010 pdcawley summed: > Ruby iterators > >Ruby interators were the subject of Erik Steven Harrison's post, which >also referred to 'pass by name' and 'the Jensen Machine', and wanted to >know 'the Perl 6 stance on the matter'. Nobody has yet stepped u

Re: Perl 6 Summary

2002-07-02 Thread hachi
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 10:36:45AM -0700, Erik Steven Harrison wrote: > > Fortunately, a little research, has clarified a good bit of my question for me. So I >think I can reposit it more clearly. Here goes. > > You all know what pass by reference is, right? And pass by value? Well, Algol 60

Re: Perl 6 Summary

2002-07-02 Thread Ashley Winters
On Tuesday 02 July 2002 11:15 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 10:36:45AM -0700, Erik Steven Harrison wrote: > > my $a = 'foo'; > > > > pass_by_name ( sub { print $a} ); > > > > sub pass_by_name { > > my $a = 'bar'; > > &@_[0]; > > } Perhaps a pragma which does: my

Re: Perl 6 Summary

2002-07-02 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 09:56:46AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sean O'Rourke [...] presented "a larger [grammar] that appears to > capture much more of the syntax found in Apocalypses and Exegeses > 1 - 4 (5 just scares me)." On that subject, am I correct that there is no Exegesi

Re: Some regex syntax foibles

2002-07-02 Thread Allison Randal
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 02:52:06PM -0500, Me wrote: > Current p6 rx syntax aiui regarding embedded code: > > / > #1 do (may include an explicit fail): > { code } > > #2 do with implicit 'or fail' > <( code )> > > #3 interp lit: > $( { code } ) > > #4 interp as r

Re: Perl 6 Summary

2002-07-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 4:19 PM -0400 7/2/02, Mark J. Reed wrote: >On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 09:56:46AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Sean O'Rourke [...] presented "a larger [grammar] that appears to >> capture much more of the syntax found in Apocalypses and Exegeses >> 1 - 4 (5 just scares me)." >O

Re: Some regex syntax foibles

2002-07-02 Thread Allison Randal
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 03:59:57PM -0500, Allison Randal wrote: > > The parens in #3, C<< <( code )> >>, make sense if you think of s/3/2/ Allison

Big thanks for Bryan and Piers

2002-07-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
Doing volunteer work is so often a thankless task (and in many cases one that gets unwarranted abuse from random passers-by) that I wanted to take a moment to publically thank both Bryan Warnock and Piers Cawley, for perl 6 list summaries past and present. They're the single most visible piece

Re: Perl 6 Summary

2002-07-02 Thread Larry Wall
Are you sure Ruby isn't just using dynamic variables? My information may be old, but that's all it seemed like to me. A certain amount of confusion naturally arises in the Ruby world because of the absence of explicit declaration, so the name binding rules get to be rather complicated. In fact,

Re: Perl 6 Summary

2002-07-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 1:07 PM -0700 7/2/02, Larry Wall wrote: >Are you sure Ruby isn't just using dynamic variables? My information may >be old, but that's all it seemed like to me. A certain amount of confusion >naturally arises in the Ruby world because of the absence of explicit >declaration, so the name bindin

Re: Ruby iterators

2002-07-02 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 01:21:50PM -0700, Erik Steven Harrison wrote: > Over on Perlmonks someone was asking about Perl 6's ability to have named > argument passing. He also asked about the Jensen Machine and Ruby iterators. > Now, just being on this list has taught me so much, but, I'm not quite

Re: Ruby iterators

2002-07-02 Thread Luke Palmer
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Michael G Schwern wrote: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 01:21:50PM -0700, Erik Steven Harrison wrote: > > Over on Perlmonks someone was asking about Perl 6's ability to have named > > argument passing. He also asked about the Jensen Machine and Ruby iterators. > > Now, just being o