On Friday 20 May 2005 08:11, "TSa (Thomas Sandlaß)" wrote:
> John Macdonald wrote:
> > ... (and there may be additional
> > operator attributes that make sense there too, although none
> > come immediately to mind).
>
> Well, I wonder why people neglect the fact that the
> neutral/identity element
On Friday 20 May 2005 07:18, John Macdonald wrote:
> Is there a built-in operator that doesn't have a meaningful
> identity value?
Certainly.
> I first thought of exponentiation, but it has
> an identity value of 1 - you just have to realize that since
> it is a right associative operator, th
On Thursday 19 May 2005 20:42, Andrew Rodland wrote:
> On Thursday 19 May 2005 10:51 pm, Sam Vilain wrote:
> > Edward Cherlin wrote:
> > > Here is the last answer from Ken Iverson, who invented
> > > reduce in the 1950s, and died recently.
> > > file:///usr/share/j504/system/extras/help/dictionary/
> -Original Message-
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> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 7:22 AM
> To: perl6-language@perl.org
> Subject: Declaration of my() variables using symbolic referentiation
>
> Hi,
>
> am I correct in the assumption that the foll
Hi,
am I correct in the assumption that the following is an error?
# Not in a BEGIN block
my $::(calc_varname()) = 42;
I think so, as my() is a compile-time operation, but in this
example, the variable name is not known until runtime, so I
think this should be forbidden. Correct?
