(Replying to p6l instead of p6c as requested.)
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:39:16AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> (Now that builtins are just functions out in * space, we can probably
> afford to throw a few more convenience functions out there for common
> operations like word splitting and whitespace
> Shouldn't these be just methods?
I guess not. This is Perl and OO is not mandatory, or even desirable
all the time.
Adriano.
Hi,
Trey Harris wrote:
> In a message dated Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Ingo Blechschmidt writes:
>> What does pick return on hashes? Does it return a random value or a
>> random pair? (I suppose returning a pair is more useful.)
>
> I'd assume in all cases that pick returns an *alias*, and in the case
> of
Larry Wall wrote:
Roles cannot be derived from, so they're always final in that sense.
We should probably consider them closed by default as well, or at least
closed after first use. If a role specifies implementation, it's always
default implementation, so overriding implementation always occurs
HaloO Larry,
you wrote:
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 06:35:06PM +0200, Thomas Sandlaß wrote:
: Is typing optional in the sense that it is no syntax error but
: otherwise ignored? To me this is pain but no gain :(
Well, you guys keep ignoring the answer. Let me put it a bit more
mathematically. The inf
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 04:00:09PM +0200, Thomas Sandlaß wrote:
: Larry Wall wrote:
: >Roles cannot be derived from, so they're always final in that sense.
: >We should probably consider them closed by default as well, or at least
: >closed after first use. If a role specifies implementation, it's
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 02:38:05PM +0200, Ingo Blechschmidt wrote:
: Hi,
:
: Trey Harris wrote:
: > In a message dated Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Ingo Blechschmidt writes:
: >> What does pick return on hashes? Does it return a random value or a
: >> random pair? (I suppose returning a pair is more useful.)
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:36:18AM +0300, wolverian wrote:
: (Replying to p6l instead of p6c as requested.)
:
: On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:39:16AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
: > (Now that builtins are just functions out in * space, we can probably
: > afford to throw a few more convenience functions
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:21:41AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> Plus you really don't want to clutter the Str type with every little
> thing you might want to do with a string. "foo".open() will probably
> work, but only because it doesn't find a Str.open and fails over to
> MMD dispatch, which ends
Juerd wrote:
Thomas Sandlaß skribis 2005-04-04 18:50 (+0200):
In particular what does &infix<=> do?
Depends. What does it mean? :)
Specifically, what is &infix, what is <=>?
Ups, a missing : warps this to a completly different meaning!
Comparing a coderef &infix with the comparison operator <=>
to
wolverian skribis 2005-04-05 19:31 (+0300):
> Does [EMAIL PROTECTED] DWIM, by the way? I'm not sure about the precedence.
Yes, . is supertight.
Juerd
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Hi,
Larry Wall wrote:
> : Same for hashes:
[...]
> : my %hash = (a => 1, b => 2),
> : my $pair := %hash.pick;
> : $pair = ...; # %hash changed
>
> I'm not sure that works. We don't quite have pairs as first class
> containers. Binding would try to use a pair as a named argument, and
> wou
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 07:31:40PM +0300, wolverian wrote:
: Does [EMAIL PROTECTED] DWIM, by the way? I'm not sure about the precedence.
That depends on whether you mean
([EMAIL PROTECTED]).words
or
~(@array.words)
It happens to mean the latter. A . binds tighter than a symbolic
unary
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 06:38:43PM +0200, Thomas Sandlaß wrote:
: Ups, a missing : warps this to a completly different meaning!
: Comparing a coderef &infix with the comparison operator <=>
: to the word list 'Scalar of Ref of Ref of Int,Int'.
:
: I tried to ask what &infix:<=>
: does. This is the
Perl 6 Language
ceil and floor
Ingo Blechschmidt wondered if ceil and floor would be in the core.
Warnock applies... Although Unicode operators would let me define
circumfix \lfloor \rfloor (although I only know how to make those
symbols in tex...). Hmmm... using tex to right P
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