[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Question: if the compiler *doesn't* raise an error, what happens? How would
the following code be interpreted, even insanely? An endless loop perhaps?
while something() = $_ { ... }
Changing the closure to use »=« instead of »-« yields with current P6C:
Can't
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Larry Wall wrote:
(Had an interesting typo there. I put = insteaqd of -. I wonder
how much trouble that sort of thing is gonna cause. Maybe pairs
can be disallowed or warned about where a pointy sub might be
expected.)
To add to the list of helpful warnings, I ran
I was wondering whether the Perl 'while (){' idiom will continue to be
supported in Perl 6? I seem to recall people posting example code the list
using it (although I can't dig any up), but it seems to me that if Perl 6's
lazy list implementation is sufficiently smart, it could just be replaced
In a message dated Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Adam Lopresto writes:
I was wondering whether the Perl 'while (){' idiom will continue to be
supported in Perl 6? I seem to recall people posting example code the list
using it (although I can't dig any up), but it seems to me that if Perl 6's
lazy list
I was wondering whether the Perl 'while (){' idiom will continue to
be supported in Perl 6?
Actually, I once found myself wondering why while doesn't set $_ all
the time anyway... It would be nice to do things like
while ($iterator-each()) { ... }
while (query-nextResult()) { ... }
On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 02:23:07AM +0800, Christian Renz wrote:
Actually, I once found myself wondering why while doesn't set $_ all
the time anyway... It would be nice to do things like
Because the logic of the while construct doesn't require any
connection between the condition and the topic
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Adam Lopresto wrote:
: I was wondering whether the Perl 'while (){' idiom will continue to be
: supported in Perl 6? I seem to recall people posting example code the list
: using it (although I can't dig any up), but it seems to me that if Perl 6's
: lazy list implementation
