On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:03:05AM -0200, Branden wrote:
I work with Perl and I also work with Tcl, and one thing I actually like
about Tcl is that it's interactive like a shell, i.e. it gives you a prompt,
where you type commands in and, if you type a whole command by the end of
the line, it
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 02:57:23PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
My only worry is, how do we reconcile this with the idea of
Perl having an easily modifiable grammar and being a good environment for
little-language stuff?
That's a good question, and it depends on what Larry's thinking of for
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 11:54:31AM +, Simon Cozens wrote:
I categorically do *NOT* want perl6-internals to turn into a basic course in
compiler design, purely for the benefit of those who know nothing at all about
what they're trying to achieve. I'd like Perl 6 to be a masterwork
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 06:58:57PM +, Tom Hughes wrote:
I didn't say that having infinite lookahead was better than allowing
backtracking. I simply said that the two were equivalent and that any
problem that can be solved by one can be solved by the other.
Fair enough.
That's quite a
