Re: Array Questions

2003-01-14 Thread Piers Cawley
Michael Lazzaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 03:24 AM, Damian Conway wrote: >> Michael Lazzaro asked: >>>class FileBasedHash is Hash { ...stuff... }; >>>my %data is FileBasedHash('/tmp/foo.txt'); >> Yes. > >>>my $path = '/tmp/foo.txt'; >>>my %data

Re: Array Questions

2003-01-14 Thread Piers Cawley
Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael Lazzaro wrote: >> Which, in turn, implies that the lines: >>my Foo $a; # (1) >>my $a is Foo; # (2) >>my Foo $a is Foo; # (3) >> are all subtly different. (2) and (3) (auto)instantiate a Foo, but >> (1) does not. > > Corr

Re: "Disappearing" code

2003-01-14 Thread Piers Cawley
Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Siracusa asked: > >> Has there been any discussion of how to create code in Perl 6 that's there >> under some conditions, but not there under others? I'm thinking of the >> spiritual equivalent of #ifdef, only Perlish. >> In Perl 5, there were many

Re: Array Questions

2003-01-14 Thread Michael Lazzaro
On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 02:24 AM, Piers Cawley wrote: Michael Lazzaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Great -- then I have only one more question, I think. In the words of a certain cartoon character, what's *this* button do? my $b is $a; Compile time error. 'is' is a compile time pr

Re: Array Questions

2003-01-14 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 9:23 AM -0800 1/14/03, Michael Lazzaro wrote: On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 02:24 AM, Piers Cawley wrote: Michael Lazzaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Great -- then I have only one more question, I think. In the words of a certain cartoon character, what's *this* button do? my $b is $

Re: This week's Perl Summary

2003-01-14 Thread Mr. Nobody
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > L2R/R2L syntax > Argh! No! It's back and this time it means business. The dreaded > left->right versus right->left thing came back, and this time it was > Damian applying the electrodes to the corpse. Of course, it being > Damian > he was instantly f

Re: This week's Perl Summary

2003-01-14 Thread Buddha Buck
Mr. Nobody wrote: If you and Damian think you'll get me to leave p6l this easily, forget it. I've seen far worse flames than that. While you were the person that Damian lost his sense of humor at, Piers didn't identify you in this part of the summary. So I don't think Piers was trying to ge

Re: This week's Perl Summary

2003-01-14 Thread Piers Cawley
"Buddha Buck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mr. Nobody wrote: > >> If you and Damian think you'll get me to leave p6l this easily, >> forget it. >> I've seen far worse flames than that. > > While you were the person that Damian lost his sense of humor at, > Piers didn't identify you in this part o

This week's Perl Summary

2003-01-14 Thread p6summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030112 ... and we're back. Yup, it's summary time again. We'll dive straight in with perl6-internals (as if you expected anything else). More thoughts on DOD Leopold Tötsch posted a test program showing the effects of PMC size and timing o

Re: This week's Perl Summary

2003-01-14 Thread Jerome Quelin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Rafael Garcia-Suarez earned at least one giggle when he > suggested that we just needed "v~" "^~" and we had our > own flavour of Befunge. I promise: Lyon.pm does _not_ earn anything from Chris Pressey [0] in order to support Befunge! :-) Jerome [0] Chris Pressey is