Trey Harris wrote:
A more practical application would be:
my $foo;
# Code which might or might not set $foo...
$foo //= 23;
# or
$foo is default(23);
In such a case, the Cis default just looks plain odd to me.
It is. More than that, it's plain wrong. Cis properties are
From: Trey Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Properties are meant to be out-of-band information; miko's
suggestion would have this property setting the *value* of
the variable.
Ah, but my exact point is that the default *isn't* set immediately. The
property is held until the sub is called. If the
It was settled a while ago that sub arguments would be defaulted like this:
sub load_data ($version / /=1) {...}
(The space between / and / is on purpose, my emailer has problems if they
are together) I and a few others had issues with the slash-slash-equals
thing, but were unable to
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 04:01:50PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It was settled a while ago that sub arguments would be defaulted like this:
sub load_data ($version / /=1) {...}
(The space between / and / is on purpose, my emailer has problems if they
are together) I and a few
From: Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Or are you proposing to *only* replace //=? Or are you
proposing to *only* replace //= in subroutine declarations?
Only augment //= in subroutine declarations, //= would also work.
What issues did you have with //=? It seems clear and concise
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 04:43:25PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Only augment //= in subroutine declarations, //= would also work.
I love the //= operator, but in the context of sub declarations it's
confusing as the *only* way to default an argument.
Oh. You want default() to be
From: Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oh. You want default() to be synonymous with //= but only in
subroutine declarations. That seems a tad odd. Why not make it
synonymous everywhere?
my $foo is default(23); # same as ...
my $foo //= 23;
Well, for is default to DWIM in a
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 05:06:32PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a general rule that a property must make sense in all contexts?
Nah, I was just being distracted by work and not thinking clearly
about your default() proposal. :-)
-Scott
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On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 03:48:41PM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 04:43:25PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Only augment //= in subroutine declarations, //= would also work.
I love the //= operator, but in the context of sub declarations it's
confusing as the
In a message dated Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Andrew Wilson writes:
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 03:48:41PM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 04:43:25PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Only augment //= in subroutine declarations, //= would also work.
I love the //= operator,
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