Re: Operators that keep going and going...

2004-03-15 Thread Larry Wall
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 05:38:33PM -0500, Matt Creenan wrote: : It just goes to show.. the perl community has already thought of : everything.. Plus a few things beyond everything, if you're into surreal numbers. Larry

RE: Operators that keep going and going...

2004-03-14 Thread Matt Creenan
It just goes to show.. the perl community has already thought of everything.. -Original Message- From: Luke Palmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 12:41 PM To: Carissa Cc: Perl Language Subject: Re: Operators that keep going and going... Carissa writes: >

Re: Operators that keep going and going...

2004-03-14 Thread Luke Palmer
Carissa writes: > The other thought that grew from these random neurons firing was whether or > not it would be possible to have operators that don't actually do anything > until the data they're dependent upon changes. I should hope that would be possible, since it's possible in Perl 5! See perl

Re: Operators that keep going and going...

2004-03-14 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carissa) writes: > Obviously the Perl6 community has accepted that it's possible to have > variants on operators for things like vectorization. I'm wondering if there > would be any desire, need or room for what I have so far thought of as > "persistent" (or "Energizer Bunny") o