Re: RFC 109 (v1) Less line noise - let's get rid of @%

2000-08-17 Thread David Corbin
. Very unambiguous. > > -- > Ariel Scolnicov|"GCAAGAATTGAACTGTAG"| [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Compugen Ltd. |Tel: +972-2-6795059 (Jerusalem) \ We recycle all our Hz > 72 Pinhas Rosen St.|Tel: +972-3-7658514 (Main office)`- > Tel-Aviv 69512,

Re: RFC 109 (v1) Less line noise - let's get rid of @%

2000-08-17 Thread David Corbin
David Corbin wrote: > > Ariel Scolnicov wrote: > > > > > > So how do I make C into an array in the first place? Well, I say > > something like C. But wait -- that's ambiguous! Is > > C now a copy of the list (1,2,3) (in which case it's an array),

Re: RFC 133 (v1) Alternate Syntax for variable names

2000-08-23 Thread David Corbin
ill not be too tricky, it will require adding some work to C > and adding more barewords to the local bareword board. > > -- > David Nicol 816.235.1187 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Laziness with responsibility http://www.tipjar.com/kcpm -- David Corbin Mach Turtle Technologies, Inc. http://www.machturtle.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ideas that need RFCs?

2000-08-23 Thread David Corbin
esigning the parser around regexes > might indicate ways in which Perl's regexes are not yet powerful > enough. > > Larry That would be coolness. -- David Corbin Mach Turtle Technologies, Inc. http://www.machturtle.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Things to remove

2000-08-23 Thread David Corbin
$name (qw/violet purple cream/) { > push @funx, sub { > print "I'll take a $name one, please, with @_.\n"; > }; > } > > --tom Or consider this pseudo code - open file lock file dump file -

Re: transaction-enabled variables

2000-08-23 Thread David Corbin
he Matrix) I think it would be a good thing, and would be another things can distinguish Perl from the other languages like pattern matching once did. It strikes me as one of those things that are going to end up adding a whole lot of power that wasn't expected, once people figure them

Re: RFC 133 (v1) Alternate Syntax for variable names

2000-08-24 Thread David Corbin
x".array[]."yy"; $x = "xx".@array[]."yy"; # not so sure about this one. # I'm not sure at all about these - I tend to avoid interpolation of arrays and hashes for "safety" $x = "xx@{array}yy" $x = "xx{array[]}yy" -- David Corbin Mach Turtle Technologies, Inc. http://www.machturtle.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Let's have a Standard for Module Configuration

2000-08-25 Thread David Corbin
urable item is needed by a new revision that isn't in the old one and warn the user. I assume that this is really just another very small .pm file. Thoughts? -- David Corbin Mach Turtle Technologies, Inc. http://www.machturtle.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What makes Perl Perl?

2000-08-25 Thread David Corbin
e to be, so what do YOU think makes Perl Perl? In addition to the four I posted, originally, I've added two. Here's my working list. native pattern matching; list manipulation aweswome text processing. It's application glue (thanks Tim) Ability to write powerful 1-line program

Re: RFC 133 (v1) Alternate Syntax for variable names

2000-08-28 Thread David Corbin
it ugly (to you)? Just having to type an additional character? Do you have a better suggestion for separating variable type from context? > > Um, don't know about hash{[a-c].*} though (apply regular expression and only > keep keys that match) > > -- > Bron ( but I don't think the ugliness is worth it in the end.. ) -- David Corbin Mach Turtle Technologies, Inc. http://www.machturtle.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC 162 (v1) Filtering Here Docs

2000-08-28 Thread David Corbin
u want to skip tabs and > spaces, put that sequence in. > > The only consequence would be that you'd have to be consistent in what > you put in front of the text lines (and in the whitespace prefix > definition). > > -- > Bart. Why not make

Re: Let's have a Standard for Module Configuration

2000-08-28 Thread David Corbin
win, especially > considering your thoughts about the module install system. > > What about Foo::Configuration? > > /Cajo. > > At 13.35 -0400 2000-08-25, David Corbin wrote: > >There are several modules I've run across that require you to edit them > >after yo

Re: Nice to have'it

2000-08-28 Thread David Corbin
t; > This is very usefull for fast searching in DBM for example. Way cool. I'd love this. But I think you've got your push arguments backwards. > PS. > Perl6 should stay Perl, but must be more than Perl. > Perl6 should be fast as mentioned in one RFC - but most importa

Re: the C JIT

2000-08-31 Thread David Corbin
at a project works best when it has a set of goals (I haven't seen one yet really for Perl 6). Unless this is one of the goals, I can easily see how this could become a serious distraction to what I perceive as the likely goals of Perl6. -- David Corbin Mach Turtle Technologies, Inc. http://www.machturtle.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]