cdumont wrote:
> In japanese it could even be :
>
> wa {
> '' no baai ni { ... }
> }
>
> Getting rid off the thema or I guess here taking $_ as the default.
>
> is this possible :
>
> given $operator {
> '' {}
> '' {}
> }
>
> ?
>
>
If Larry doesn't mind me elbowing into th
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 03:01:06PM -0600, David Green wrote:
> On 10/6/07, brian d foy wrote:
>> That looks like it might mean that these are corresponding forms:
>>8 => 377:8<377>:8(377)
>>
>> Now, if I can do that, what happens to the pair form in a hash composer
>> when I want the ke
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, cdumont
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> oh, it might not be relevant in many ways but :
>
> http://iamseb.com/seb/2007/12/perl-on-rails-why-the-bbc-fails-at-th
On 4 Dec 2007, at 15:39, Larry Wall wrote:
It's kinda caught between two other notions. On the one hand,
we're trying to reserve ` for user definition, in part because it's
so difficult to tell from ' in many fonts so we're avoiding it for
standard usage. On the other hand, it's not clear that
On 4 Dec 2007, at 16:19, Andy Armstrong wrote:
my $amp = '&'; # No unit, plain text
my $body = "$amp"html; # gets &
Per http://search.cpan.org/~andya/String-Smart/ I should say.
--
Andy Armstrong, Hexten
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Larry Wall
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Later in the "Literals" section of S02, there's a chart of the
> : corresponding forms for fat arrow, pair, and paren notation. It has
> :
> :a => 'foo' :a :a()
> :
> : That looks like it might mean that thes
Another thing to note about given ... when: you don't have to use them
together. All that "given" does is to set $_ to the variable
provided; this can be used in a manner similar to "with" statements in
other languages. And "when" doesn't have to be inside a "given"
block, either: it can be used
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 08:28:48AM -0800, brian d foy wrote:
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Larry Wall
: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:
: > : Later in the "Literals" section of S02, there's a chart of the
: > : corresponding forms for fat arrow, pair, and paren notation. It has
: > :
: > :a
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 07:39:16AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 03:01:06PM -0600, David Green wrote:
> > What happened to the suggestion of using ` to designate units?
>
> It's kinda caught between two other notions. On the one hand,
> we're trying to reserve ` for user defi
