[OT] Re: Parrot and PGE will save the day (was Re: as if [Was: Selective reuse of storage in bless.] )

2006-01-21 Thread Juerd
Rob Kinyon skribis 2006-01-20 23:12 (-0500): $ perl -le '$h{1} = Perl; print values h' Perl $ perl -le 'push a, Perl; print @a' Perl Now, that's an unadvertised feature! I think I need to revisit some golfs ... Not worth the effort, because length('[EMAIL PROTECTED]') == length('push

Re: Parrot and PGE will save the day (was Re: as if [Was: Selective reuse of storage in bless.] )

2006-01-21 Thread Larry Wall
The purpose of the P5-to-P6 translator is mostly to provide warm fuzzies. That's how it worked out for a2p, anyway. People knew they had the translator available, but mostly just translated their stuff piecemeal by hand. They primarily used the translator for educational purposes--feed a bit of

Parrot and PGE will save the day (was Re: as if [Was: Selective reuse of storage in bless.] )

2006-01-20 Thread Rob Kinyon
On 1/20/06, Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 04:20:54PM -0500, Rob Kinyon wrote: Pros: Larry doesn't have to do anything more on the WMoT. Cons: The community, for some reason, really wants this auto-translator, even though there wasn't one for P4-P5