Re: [perl #21668] APL doesn't use sigils

2003-03-25 Thread Benjamin Goldberg
Adam Turoff wrote: > Benjamin Goldberg wrote: >> Adam Turoff wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:21:51PM -0500, Benjamin Goldberg wrote: And what happens if a programmer wants to have two different variables, of two different types, with the same name, such as @data and %data?

Bonsai

2003-03-25 Thread Zach Lipton
After many months of poking, prodding, and slacking off, I am pleased to announce Bonsai for the parrot cvs repository. The executive summary: see http://tinderbox.perl.org/bonsai, play Also see mozilla.org's summary of Bonsai at http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/bonsai.html. While much of this docu

Re: [perl #21668] APL doesn't use sigils

2003-03-25 Thread Adam Turoff
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 09:25:30PM -0500, Benjamin Goldberg wrote: > Adam Turoff wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:21:51PM -0500, Benjamin Goldberg wrote: > > > And what happens if a programmer wants to have two different > > > variables, of two different types, with the same name, such as @dat

Re: [perl #21668] APL doesn't use sigils

2003-03-25 Thread Benjamin Goldberg
Adam Turoff wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:21:51PM -0500, Benjamin Goldberg wrote: > > And what happens if a programmer wants to have two different > > variables, of two different types, with the same name, such as @data > > and %data? > > > > Without sigils, it cannot be done. > > Vast nu

Re: [perl #21668] APL doesn't use sigils

2003-03-25 Thread Sean O'Rourke
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Benjamin Goldberg wrote: > And what happens if a programmer wants to have two different variables, > of two different types, with the same name, such as @data and %data? > > Without sigils, it cannot be done. Actually, if you squint, other languages are far ahead of Perl in th

Re: [perl #21668] APL doesn't use sigils

2003-03-25 Thread Adam Turoff
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:21:51PM -0500, Benjamin Goldberg wrote: > And what happens if a programmer wants to have two different variables, > of two different types, with the same name, such as @data and %data? > > Without sigils, it cannot be done. Vast numbers of C, C++, C#, Java, Python, Lisp

This week's Summary

2003-03-25 Thread Piers Cawley
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030323 Assuming I can tear myself away from stroking the cat who has just magically appeared on my chest and is even now trying to wipe his dags on my nose, welcome one and all to another Perl 6 summary, which should go a lot quicker now that