Aaron Sherman writes:
> On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 09:37 -0600, Luke Palmer wrote:
>
> > We're thinking at the moment that `while` will probably look like this:
> >
> > sub statement:<while> (&cond is lazy, &block) {
> [...]
>
> Just curious, why a sub and not a macro?
Didn't need a macro. statement:<while> will probably end up generating
parrot code directly, but this is a possible non-macro implementation.
> > That does pose a problem with:
> >
> > given $foo {
> > until $_.leaf {
> > ^process; # uh oh, means $foo.leaf.process
> > $_ = ^next;
> > }
> > }
>
> Ok, I'm lost. What's a unary "^"?
Whoops. I think I forgot to say that I was experimenting with the
half-proposed unary ^meth for $_.meth.
Luke
