Uri Guttman wrote:
> but what simon was saying (and i agree) is the the pair IS a single
> item. it becomes the key and its value is 'scalars'.
No. If it's a PAIR, then its key is the key and its value is the value.
> hashes can now take objects as keys and won't just stringify them.
Correct.
David Wheeler wrote:
> Yes, but this:
>
>my Really::Long::Package::Name::Ugh $date is now {.init 'June 25,
> 2002' };
>
> Is shorter than this:
>
> my Really::Long::Package::Name::Ugh $date =
>Really::Long::Package::Name::Ugh.new( 'June 25, 2002' );
>
> It's not the short package nam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Damian Conway) writes:
> > hashes can now take objects as keys and won't just stringify them.
>
> Correct. But I believe that's only if the hash has a property that marks
> its keys as being objects, not strings:
>
> my %hash is keyed(REF);
>
> And, even if that's the d
The thing I'd like to do right now is turn on :w
for all rules. A Fortran grammar might want to turn
on :i for all rules.
Maybe add modifiers to the grammar declaration?
grammar Fortran :i { ... }
It would also be convenient to allow the :w
modifier to have lexically scoped behavior so a
gra
> "SC" == Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SC> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Damian Conway) writes:
>> > hashes can now take objects as keys and won't just stringify them.
>>
>> Correct. But I believe that's only if the hash has a property that marks
>> its keys as being objects, not
On Sunday, September 1, 2002, at 05:30 AM, Damian Conway wrote:
> Sure. But the right solution is to permanently eliminate the
> sesquipedalian
> name (so you don't have to retype it for every single typed variable):
>
> class Date is Really::Long::Package::Name::Ugh;
Oh, that's nice. As
> And, furthermore, that you could easily define special semantics
> for void-context constructor calls via undef'd but typed variables,
> so that you could just write:
>
> (my Date $date).new('June 25, 2002');
>
> and have the interpreter autovivify the object.
That's pretty close to wha
> "DW" == David Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DW> On Sunday, September 1, 2002, at 05:30 AM, Damian Conway wrote:
>> Sure. But the right solution is to permanently eliminate the
>> sesquipedalian
>> name (so you don't have to retype it for every single typed variable):
>>
Ooo I need your code, babe
Guess you know it's true
Hope you need this build babe
Just like I need you
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News collected from Piers Cawley's excellent summaries:
Working Perl6 REs
Multidimensional keyed access
JIT for the ARM
Lexical scope
The 'DEVELOPING' file accidentally made its way into the MANIFEST, but
doesn't actually exist in the tarball. It's not a problem, as you can
delete the appropriate line in the MANIFEST and continue, but given the
large file size I thought I should alert you. 0.0.8.1 is being uploaded
at the moment
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