Re: Fwd: [perl #57656] [PROPOSAL][PIR] change PIR sugar for concat into ".." (or something else)

2008-08-20 Thread Allison Randal
Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: I'm sorry, but this is not the case. It is in fact valid: running: == .sub main newclass $P0, "foo" $P1 = new "foo" $P1 .hi() # note the space before the dot $P1. hi() # note the space after the dot .end .namespace ["foo"] .sub hi :method pr

Re: Fwd: [perl #57656] [PROPOSAL][PIR] change PIR sugar for concat into ".." (or something else)

2008-08-19 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >>Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: >> >> >>On Wed Aug 06 05:53:07 2008, kjs wrote: >> >>

Re: Fwd: [perl #57656] [PROPOSAL][PIR] change PIR sugar for concat into ".." (or something else)

2008-08-18 Thread Allison Randal
Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: On Wed Aug 06 05:53:07 2008, kjs wrote: My proposal would be to change the concatenate dot into "..", which

Re: Fwd: [perl #57656] [PROPOSAL][PIR] change PIR sugar for concat into ".." (or something else)

2008-08-18 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: > >> >> On Wed Aug 06 05:53:07 2008, kjs wrote: >> >>> My proposal would be to change the concatenate dot into "..", which looks >>> like it, but is more explicit, and will prevent such mistakes. >>>

Re: Fwd: [perl #57656] [PROPOSAL][PIR] change PIR sugar for concat into ".." (or something else)

2008-08-16 Thread Allison Randal
Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: On Wed Aug 06 05:53:07 2008, kjs wrote: My proposal would be to change the concatenate dot into "..", which looks like it, but is more explicit, and will prevent such mistakes. I agree that there should be some change. I've run into this problem myself in the past, and i

Fwd: [perl #57656] [PROPOSAL][PIR] change PIR sugar for concat into ".." (or something else)

2008-08-07 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Andrew Whitworth via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:11 AM I like ".." and "~". I also like "+", if we can get IMCC to reliably understand that when used on strings it performs concatenation instead of some crazy addition. But there's a concat_p_p_p op, so

Fwd: [perl #57656] [PROPOSAL][PIR] change PIR sugar for concat into ".." (or something else)

2008-08-07 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
[this message was not sent to list, which it seems it should have; hence the forward.] -- Forwarded message -- From: Andrew Whitworth via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:11 AM Subject: [perl #57656] [PROPOSAL][PIR] change PIR sugar for concat into ".." (or somet