Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Piers Cawley wrote:
>
>>> C is compile-time.
>> So, how would one create a class which inherits from some other
>> class
>> when you don't know what said other class is until runtime?
>
> Use Perl5-ish classes, or an C.
Perl5-ish classes? You mean 'ble
They can't be very serious -- the archive link is dead.
Or perhaps everyone agrees that something needs to be done, but no-one
has any ideas?
=Austin
--- "Joseph F. Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> david wrote:
>
> > The brazen heresy continues...
> >
> > http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listin
Damian Conway writes:
>
> There's no second iterator. Just C walking through an array.
>
( questions in the form of answers :-)
so :
* "for" impose array context for first argument and doesnt care about
"nature" of the array which it was given eventually as an argument .
no multiple st
> [perhaps]
> : bare blocks (even those passed as args) just
> : pick up from the surrounding lexical context.
This is definitely a significant simplification.
Is it a problem?
> Yes, that's the problem. A bare block would
> have to notice at run time that it was called
> with unexpected argument
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 11:27:07AM -0600, Me wrote:
: And documenting this by the '->' distinction
: described above (ie -> means private $_ set
: by mumble, no -> means $_ is just the outer
: lexical) would look natural as well being
: logical and strikingly simple.
It would, however, force peopl
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 20:11, Brent Dax wrote:
> Are you suggesting this?
>
> if($error) {
> use visible '&croak';
> require Carp;
> import Carp: 'croak';
> croak($error);
> }
No - that would be pointless as well as error-prone.
> > Are you suggesting this?
> >
> > if($error) {
> > use visible '&croak';
> > require Carp;
> > import Carp: 'croak';
> > croak($error);
> > }
>
> No - that would be pointless as well as error-prone.
>
> My idea of "visible" is that it would make a lexically scoped thing
> accessible to an inn
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