Luke Palmer wrote at Wed, 25 Sep 2002 00:09:41 +0200:
Very good written text.
> =head1 DESCRIPTION
>
> Because of the addition of the flattening operator, parentheses in Perl 6,
> when used as list constructors, are entirely redundant with brackets.
> Additionally, parentheses have one incons
The Perl 6 Summary for the Week Ending 20020822
So, another week, another Perl 6 summary. Let's see if I can get through
this one without calling Tim Bunce 'Tim Bunch' shall we? Or maybe I
should leave a couple of deliberate errors in as a less than cunning
ploy to get more feedbac
From: Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [snip]
Luke, thanks and congratulations on a well written case. You put into
words exactly what I was trying to put into words myself. Now I don't have
to finish this ugly draft I have lying around.
-Miko
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On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 17:27, John Williams wrote:
> If I understand our non-conclusions so far, we're waiting for Larry to
> clarify:
>
> 1) how to create a 1-tuple/1-item list?
>
> 2) how to interpret the flattened list context? e.g. given this:
>
> > $x = (1,2,3);
> > @y = (
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 11:54:06PM -0600, John Williams wrote:
> After testing various cases of x, I came up with one that I cannot
> explain. Can someone tell me what is happening here (in perl5)?
>
> $ perl -le 'print "@{[ $a = ('a','b') x 3 ]}"; print $a'
> a bbb
> bbb
>
> or in other words
