Re: aliasing - was:[nice2haveit]

2001-07-17 Thread Jeremy Howard
"raptor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <...> > the idea of aliasing is to preserve the fast access and on the other side to > shorden the "accessor"(i.e the way to access the structure) and make code > clearer.(mostly u can choose a name that has better meaning in your context) > This reminds me... a

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Re: aliasing - was:[nice2haveit]

2001-07-17 Thread raptor
> > > I mean something like this : > > > > > instead of : > > > #$Request->{Params} > > > local *myhash = \%{$$Request{Params}}; > > > > > my %myhash alias %{$$Request{Params}};#see - it is my (now as far as I know > > > u can't have it 'my') > > > >You don't need a typeglob there; you can do the

Re: precision belongs in bigfloats, nowhere else.

2001-07-17 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 03:11 PM 7/14/2001 +0200, Bart Lateur wrote: >On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 18:09:07 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > >Precision is a useful thing with bigfloats so something like 1/3 doesn't > >chew up all your available memory. > >1/3 would better be represented as a ratio, 1 over 3. > >We've been here b

Re: nice2haveit

2001-07-17 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 05:10 AM 7/17/2001 +, Mark Morgan wrote: >Raptor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I mean something like this : > > > instead of : > > #$Request->{Params} > > local *myhash = \%{$$Request{Params}}; > > > my %myhash alias %{$$Request{Params}};#see - it is my (now as far as I know > > u can't ha

Re: nice2haveit

2001-07-17 Thread Mark Morgan
Raptor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I mean something like this : > instead of : > #$Request->{Params} > local *myhash = \%{$$Request{Params}}; > my %myhash alias %{$$Request{Params}};#see - it is my (now as far as I know > u can't have it 'my') You don't need a typeglob there; you can do the fo

RE: Perl5 Compatibility, take 2 (Re: Perl, the new generation)

2001-07-17 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
David Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Well, I think we should take a step back and answer a few key questions: >> >> 1. Do we want to be able to use Perl 5 modules in a >>Perl 6 program (without conversion)? > >For a while, quite possibly, I'd say. > >When 5.6 came out, I was in m