"Sean O'Rourke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> languages/perl6/README sort of hides it, but it does say that "If you have
> Perl <= 5.005_03, "$a += 3" may fail to parse." I guess we can upgrade
> that to "if you have < 5.6, you lose".
I notice that DBI no longer supports Perl releases <5.6. See
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:14:15AM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote:
> "Sean O'Rourke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > languages/perl6/README sort of hides it, but it does say that "If you have
> > Perl <= 5.005_03, "$a += 3" may fail to parse." I guess we can upgrade
> > that to "if you have < 5.6, you
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, david nicol wrote:
>
> The thought process went something like this.
>
> In a world of distributed perl data, we want an
> expression like
>
> foreach (grep { $_->{smoker} and $_->{age} > 18 } @Subscribers){
> $->send($Cigarette_Advertisement)
> }
Nicholas Clark wrote:
> In October 2000 I believed that 5.005 maintenance *is* important for the
> acceptance of perl6, and I still do now:
Some minutes ago I sent a first patch to Sean, to make it work on 5.005_03.
One reason of failure is shown by the following snippet:
$ cat t1
#!/usr/bin/
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:21:09AM +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:14:15AM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote:
> > "Sean O'Rourke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > languages/perl6/README sort of hides it, but it does say that "If you have
> > > Perl <= 5.005_03, "$a += 3" may fail
From: david nicol [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> foreach (grep { $_->{smoker} and $_->{age} > 18 } @Subscribers){
> $->send($Cigarette_Advertisement)
> }
>
> This would imply an extension of the array tieing
> interface, so we can send the grep block to the
> data server, and get b
=head1 TITLE
Perl 6 summary for week ending 2002-07-21
=head1 AUTHOR
Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
=head1 DETAILS
Another week, another Perl 6 summary. Cunningly this week I have taken
over the summary from Piers in order to make it easier for me to
namecheck myself. It's been a good week
At 12:00 PM 7/22/2002 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:21:09AM +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:14:15AM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote:
> > > "Sean O'Rourke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > languages/perl6/README sort of hides it, but it does say t
