From: Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
last almost works, except it's specific to loops
But last also works for anonymous blocks, which aren't loops. (Aren't they?
Don't know about you tovarisch, but my anonymous blocks execute just once.)
In fact, that's why I asked. I have a lot of code that
Will Perl6 have labeled if blocks? Like this:
BLAH:
if ($foo) {
...
last BLAH if $bar;
...
}
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From: Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
that is not a variable property so it should be
a compile time error.
I was under the impression that compile time properties, like runtime
properties, can be arbitrarily invented and/or assigned. If that is
correct, why would my $var is true, meaningless
Would it be accurate to say that is sets properties of variables, whereas
but sets properties of values? If so, what would this output:
my $var is true;
$var=0;
if ($var) {print true}
else {print false}
I would expect it to output false.
From: Trey Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Steve Canfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would expect it to output false.
Why? I believe that, whatever you set $var to, you have marked the
variable as constantly true in booleans.
Because in my experience variables are not true or false. They reference
Damian Conway wrote:
And is the is/but distinction still around?
Oh, yes.
Could someone please reference where this decision was made. I do not find
any information describing the distinction.
Steve
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Will there be automatic calling of the deserialization method for objects,
so that code like this DWIMs...
my Date $bday = 'June 25, 2002';
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