The thought process went something like this.
In a world of distributed perl data, we want an
expression like
foreach (grep { $_-{smoker} and $_-{age} 18 } @Subscribers){
$-send($Cigarette_Advertisement)
}
to do the filtering on the machine that holds the
Sean O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
languages/perl6/README sort of hides it, but it does say that If you have
Perl = 5.005_03, $a += 3 may fail to parse. I guess we can upgrade
that to if you have 5.6, you lose.
I notice that DBI no longer supports Perl releases 5.6. Seems enough
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:14:15AM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote:
Sean O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
languages/perl6/README sort of hides it, but it does say that If you have
Perl = 5.005_03, $a += 3 may fail to parse. I guess we can upgrade
that to if you have 5.6, you lose.
I notice
Nicholas Clark wrote:
In October 2000 I believed that 5.005 maintenance *is* important for the
acceptance of perl6, and I still do now:
Some minutes ago I sent a first patch to Sean, to make it work on 5.005_03.
One reason of failure is shown by the following snippet:
$ cat t1
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:21:09AM +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:14:15AM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote:
Sean O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
languages/perl6/README sort of hides it, but it does say that If you have
Perl = 5.005_03, $a += 3 may fail to parse. I
From: david nicol [EMAIL PROTECTED]
foreach (grep { $_-{smoker} and $_-{age} 18 } @Subscribers){
$-send($Cigarette_Advertisement)
}
This would imply an extension of the array tieing
interface, so we can send the grep block to the
data server, and get back a
=head1 TITLE
Perl 6 summary for week ending 2002-07-21
=head1 AUTHOR
Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=head1 DETAILS
Another week, another Perl 6 summary. Cunningly this week I have taken
over the summary from Piers in order to make it easier for me to
namecheck myself. It's been a good week
At 12:00 PM 7/22/2002 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:21:09AM +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:14:15AM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote:
Sean O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
languages/perl6/README sort of hides it, but it does say that If
you
