PRE-POST methods [Was: Selective exporting of properties/methods]

2002-05-13 Thread raptor
]- I can't remember but i think I read somewhere or it was discussed here (can't ]remember), but I think it was mentioned that Perl6 will have PRE and POST method/sub ]handlers probably specified as attribute, so that (syntax may be wrong): class XXX { method blah is PRE {} method blah

Re: Bytecode format redesign

2002-05-13 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 07:07, Nicholas Clark wrote: Is this like the PNG file header? Of course. I'm not that particularly clever. 0xCC is 128, designed to detect if the file has been stripped to 7 bit Also, having the 8 bit set is often sufficient to trigger binary mode for primitive

Re: Accessor methods ?

2002-05-13 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 12:30:20AM +0200, Pixel wrote: FYI Ruby has: a.type = b.type or a.type == b.type where the various operators (, , ==, != ...) are overloaded according to the subtyping relation. as for me, - i find the == very readable, - but i'm not sure = is very

Re: Accessor methods ?

2002-05-13 Thread Pixel
Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 12:30:20AM +0200, Pixel wrote: FYI Ruby has: a.type = b.type or a.type == b.type [...] Well, it comes from set notation - and you used the prefixes 'sub' and 'super' exactly as they are used in sets. :) [...]

Re: PRE-POST methods [Was: Selective exporting of properties/methods]

2002-05-13 Thread Larry Wall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : ]- I can't remember but i think I read somewhere or it was discussed here (can't :remember), but I think it was mentioned that Perl6 will have PRE and POST method/sub :handlers probably specified as attribute, so that (syntax may be wrong): : : class XXX { :

Re: Larry's State of the Onion slides

2002-05-13 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
On Wed, 8 May 2002, Nathan Torkington wrote: Larry's State of the Onion slides from TPC5 are now available from http://dev.perl.org/perl6/talks/ http://dev.perl.org/perl6/talks/onion5.pdf - ask Damian sent them to me in PPT form in January, and only now I converted them to PDF. Ask,