Dear all
I hope I am sending this to the correct place.
I regularly use the RAII idiom in Perl 5 and C++ to automatically clean
up resources during object destruction.
I recently read a mail thread "Is RAII possible in Python?" at
http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread25072.html and "Perl vs Pyt
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 12:02:35PM +, Blair Sutton wrote:
: Dear all
: I hope I am sending this to the correct place.
: I regularly use the RAII idiom in Perl 5 and C++ to automatically clean
: up resources during object destruction.
: I recently read a mail thread "Is RAII possible in Python?
Larry Wall wrote:
... (Perl 6 provides several ways that
are much handier than try/finally, and just about as handy as RAII.)
But baking such handicaps into every object merely guarantees it
will not scale well in the real world.
Thanks for the information. I mu
On 12/18/06, Blair Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I agree entirely that not all objects need this capability but some
certainly do. That is, the capability to execute code once every
reference of an object has been removed. Could you point to, or give an
example of the Perl 6 way for doing som
Author: larry
Date: Mon Dec 18 17:50:54 2006
New Revision: 13493
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod
Log:
Nitty infrastructural routines probably shouldn't rely on multiple dispatch or
optional args, so we now have .call, .callc and .callv forms.
Also added .goto variants for tail call enfo
