Re: Google index and subsets (two topics for the price of one!)

2008-06-15 Thread TSa
HaloO, Ovid wrote: In other words, I think we could get proper constraint programming if a subset can mutate its variable. Otherwise, all assignment would need to be wrapped inside of an eval and the code would be more bug-prone. I must admit that I hardly follow that statement. Why are side-

Re: Google index and subsets (two topics for the price of one!)

2008-06-15 Thread TSa
HaloO, Daniel Ruoso wrote: In fact, I doubt that there's a way to completely avoid any possible side effects on this closures. as the very first line of the closure shows: $_.inside_of(...) This is a plain method call, there's no way to tell if this method will change anything inside the

Re: assignable mutators (S06/Lvalue subroutines)

2008-06-15 Thread TSa
HaloO, David Green wrote: I would expect all of those to work the same way in either case. That is, anywhere the sub is used as an lvalue, it could pass the rvalue as a special arg, not just when using "=". I agree. But I want to stress that the big thing is that a lvalue sub---and to a less