Re: the whole and everything

2004-07-21 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 07:24:52PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: : There is no need to change these things before OSCON. All benches that : run are running from equal speed C up : to around 3 times the speed of Python, e.g. the PI() coroutine in b2.py : :) So Evil Larryâ suggests that you embed a

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-21 Thread Piers Cawley
Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Okay, so the interview was on Tuesday 13th of July. >> It went well; I'm going to be a maths teacher. [...] > As we all know, time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a > banana. If you

Re: String interpolation

2004-07-21 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
[Forgot to send it to the list. D'oh.] Wow, I'm really having a bad e-mail day. Sorry, guys. -- Brent "Dax" Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perl and Parrot hacker Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

Re: String interpolation

2004-07-21 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Luke Palmer wrote: I admit there's a certain interest to Larry's new idea. I've been looking for more distinction between $, @, and % in Perl 6, since they start to become mostly irrelavent. In the new proposal: my @a = (1,2,3,4,5); my $a = @a; say "@a"; # @a say "$a"; # 1