C style conditional statements

2004-05-11 Thread Pedro Larroy
Hi Is there any chance that in perl6 there will be the possibility to write if/else statements without {}s with the condition at the beginning? Like if (condition) statement; In order not to break traditional C culture. Is there any technical reason why it wasn't done in perl5? Regar

Re: C style conditional statements

2004-05-11 Thread Andrew Rodland
On Tuesday 11 May 2004 08:00 pm, Pedro Larroy wrote: > Hi > > Is there any chance that in perl6 there will be the possibility to write > if/else statements without {}s with the condition at the beginning? > > Like > > if (condition) > statement; > > In order not to break traditional C culture

Re: C style conditional statements

2004-05-11 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 08:31:55PM -0400, Andrew Rodland wrote: : On Tuesday 11 May 2004 08:00 pm, Pedro Larroy wrote: : > Hi : > : > Is there any chance that in perl6 there will be the possibility to write : > if/else statements without {}s with the condition at the beginning? : > : > Like : > : >

Re: C style conditional statements

2004-05-11 Thread Andrew Rodland
On Tuesday 11 May 2004 10:13 pm, Larry Wall wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 08:31:55PM -0400, Andrew Rodland wrote: > : On Tuesday 11 May 2004 08:00 pm, Pedro Larroy wrote: > : > Hi > : > > : > Is there any chance that in perl6 there will be the possibility to > : > write if/else statements withou

Completely OT question about a Larry quote

2004-05-11 Thread Simon Cozens
I apologise for asking this here, but I can't think of anywhere better for it, and I have a feeling what I'm looking for was in a Perl 6-related talk, so... I remember reading a transcript of a talk Larry gave sometime which mentioned a conversation between Heidi Wall and Damian Conway, in which

Re: Completely OT question about a Larry quote

2004-05-11 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Cozens) writes: > I remember reading a transcript of a talk Larry gave sometime which mentioned > a conversation between Heidi Wall and Damian Conway, in which Heidi said > something like "But what is the future apart from a succession of tomorrows?" Ziggy and Kurt both fo

This week's summary

2004-05-11 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-05-09 Ooh look. Stuff's been happening in perl6-internals again. Will wonders never cease? Building NCI by default Bernhard Schmalhofer posted a patch to turn on building libnci.so by default so that the tests in t/pmc/nci.t would get