Larry wrote:
> $z = 0 but true;
> I'm not even particularly upset by this:
> my bool $x = $z;# $x == 1
Yep, that's all I mean. I just want things like:
my bool $lit = ($light eq "on");
if $lit { ... }
to work such that (1) 'bool' always stores the "truth" of the
e
Matthew Zimmerman wrote in perl.perl6.language :
>
> So let me make my original question a little more general: are Perl 6 source
> files encoded in Latin-1, UTF-8, or will Perl 6 provide some sort of
> translation mechanism, like specifying the charset on the command line?
I expect probably some
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 14:41, Larry Wall wrote:
> And maybe:
>
> A bitwise operator is just a logic operator scoped to a set of bits.
Hypo-operators. :-)
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Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Piers Cawley wrote:
>
>> So, on the train this morning, I had a moment of Satori. What's wrong
>> with doing what we think of as bitwise operations using the flexops
>> and adding a 'bitwise' context? So, a bitwise op becomes:
>>bitwise ( $a | $b | $
Michael Lazzaro wrote:
> Agreed: the value of comparing a boolean with anything else is not
> particularly sensible in *any* language.
It isn't particularly unsensible in PHP.
PHP only has one equality operator. If its operands are of different
types then it casts one operand to match the other
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> Michael Lazzaro wrote:
>
> > Agreed: the value of comparing a boolean with anything else is not
> > particularly sensible in *any* langua
For all you Mac OS X fans out there:
http://www.earthlingsoft.net/UnicodeChecker/
Regards,
David
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I read Allison's topicalization piece:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/10/30/topic.html
I started with a simple thought:
is given($foo)
seems to jar with
given $foo { ... }
One pulls in the topic from outside and
calls it $foo, the other does the reverse --
it pulls in $foo from th
