Re: $RS paragraph mode going away?

Larry Wall wrote : > > Paragraph mode is not going away--it's merely going elsewhere. :-) > >: If so, what's the rationale? Another case of "you can't do it right >: internationally, so better not to do it at all"? > > No, it's simply that using a global variable to control something > that s

Re: Perl6 grammar (take IV)

In a message dated Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Sean O'Rourke writes: > - Implicit currying variables ($^a etc) are in. I thought I had read > somewhere they were gone in favor of closure args, but people seem > to be using them, and they're not hard to put in. My understanding is that they still exist

Re: Perl 6 Summary

Peter Scott wrote: > At 01:54 PM 7/3/02 -0600, Thom Boyer wrote: > >> I'm personally MUCH more interested in Python's generators >> . >> >> A generator is like an iterator in that it can produce >> a series of values. But unlike iterators, when you ask

Re: Perl6 grammar (take IV)

On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Trey Harris wrote: : In a message dated Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Sean O'Rourke writes: : > - Implicit currying variables ($^a etc) are in. I thought I had read : > somewhere they were gone in favor of closure args, but people seem : > to be using them, and they're not hard to put

Re: Perl 6 Summary

On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Thom Boyer wrote: : Has there been any indication whether those suggestions have met : with Larry's approval? There will certainly be support for that sort of thing in Parrot, up to and including continuations. Otherwise we cannot hope to host all these other languages. Exac