I would like to take this chance to also mention that Steve posted a similar discussion node on the Perl Monks website, and I mentioned this thread to TheDamian, and he asked that I post the link to that thread. http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=243089 Thomas Stanley aka TStanley on
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:53:53AM -0500, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:59:42PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
> > well, this is what will be supported which is named nested subs.
> > it looks to be compiled but callable only from within the outer sub and
> > it has access to the
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:19:18PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
> > "AP" == Andrew Pimlott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> AP> On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:59:42PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
> >>
> >> my $c;
> >> sub foo() {
> >> my $a;
> >> my $b;
> >>
> >> my sub bar() {
> >>
> "AP" == Andrew Pimlott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AP> On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:59:42PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
>>
>> my $c;
>> sub foo() {
>> my $a;
>> my $b;
>>
>> my sub bar() {
>> $b = $a + $c;
>> }
>>
>> bar();
>> }
>>
>> is that close enough?
At 11:53 -0500 2003.03.15, Wizard wrote:
>I don't view it as a problem, and I didn't mean to imply that I thought
>Perl5 would be any sort of second-string language, only that it may very
>well become relegated to tasks other than a production language.
OK, you and I must have very different
> This somewhat misses my point. The lack of migration of many users should
> not be viewed as a problem, necessarily, but as a difference of opinion, a
> choice. The widespread view that people who stick with Perl 5 will be
> sticking with an old, crufty, slow, backward, legacy language is the
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:59:42PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
> well, this is what will be supported which is named nested subs.
> it looks to be compiled but callable only from within the outer sub and
> it has access to the outer subs vars.
>
> my $c;
> sub foo() {
> my $a;
>
On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 10:11 AM, Mikey Smelto wrote:
You forgot to mention that we will all have to deal with suggesting
perl5 to project managers/decision makers(read: people who don't
understand anything) as a language of choice for projects of the
future, and explain to them why
You forgot to mention that we will all have to deal with suggesting perl5 to
project managers/decision makers(read: people who don't understand anything)
as a language of choice for projects of the future, and explain to them why
we don't want to use the newest version of the language, and
> My only real concern is that when Perl 6 comes out, the community will be
> fractured, and we -- you, me, Larry, Damian -- will need to work to
> minimize the damage, for the benefit of Perl 5 and Perl 6 users. We will
> need to deal with CPAN/PAUSE/RT/search, we will need to deal with IRC and
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