Previously, on St. Elsewhere...
Simon(e) writes...
> But of course, I'm sure you already know what makes
> good language design, because otherwise you wouldn't
> be mouthing off in here...
Why is it that "Me" is *mouthing off*, but you're not? Why is that?
What makes you so *special*? The fact
> Perl is looking a bit shaky at the moment.
Yeah. I think I understand what you mean by "shaky".
I always expected Perl to be leading the way, *the* language
that broke new ground..."where only camels dared to tread..."
Now we find that Perl6 is just huffin' and puffin' its way
to *catch up*
Python? Didn't know you were so into tuples...
I thought your head would be turned by Ruby ;-)
BTW - There's a Ruby "Inline::Perl" module in alpha
testing now...this will be a nice complement to the
"Inline::Python" module already available...
Must dash - Vijay
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>> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 06:48:53PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
>> Of course, 'sub it():lvalue{$_}' gets you *most* of the benefit.
>
> um, no.
>
>> You see that word? You know what it means?
The "word" you *highlighted* was "of", as in "Of course". A non-sequitor, but your
meaning is cl