On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 07:23:31PM -0800, Darren Duncan wrote:
: At 6:22 PM -0800 1/23/07, Larry Wall wrote:
: >Recently I started redefining C to return multislices such that
: >
: >map { $_, $_ * 10 }, 1..3
: >
: >seems to return 1,10,2,20,3,30 by default, but in a multidimensional
: >context
At 6:22 PM -0800 1/23/07, Larry Wall wrote:
Recently I started redefining C to return multislices such that
map { $_, $_ * 10 }, 1..3
seems to return 1,10,2,20,3,30 by default, but in a multidimensional
context:
@@multislice := map { $_, $_ * 10 }, 1..3
it would have the value [1,10],
I've been struggling lately with a missing generalization, and I'm not
sure how it's going to play out, so I thought I'd ask for advice, or
at least think out loud a bit.
Perl has always had functions and listops that take a flat list and
do something with each element. Perl has also had various
On 1/23/07, Paul Seamons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> While I'm in general agreement with everything you've said it makes me a
> tad nervous to hinge so much on the difference of one character. Can
you
> imagine trying to track down the bug where
>
> if ($alpha === $beta) { ... }
>
> reall
> While I'm in general agreement with everything you've said it makes me a
> tad nervous to hinge so much on the difference of one character. Can you
> imagine trying to track down the bug where
>
> if ($alpha === $beta) { ... }
>
> really should have been
>
> if ($alpha == $beta) { ... }
I accidently sent this just to Darren ...
-Scott
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From: Jonathan Scott Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Jan 22, 2007 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: Numeric Semantics
To: Darren Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 1/22/07, Darren Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:.
I thin
On 1/22/07, Doug McNutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 00:32 + 1/23/07, Smylers wrote:
> % perl -wle 'print 99 / 2'
> 49.5
I would expect the line to return 49 because you surely meant integer
division. Perl 5 just doesn't have a user-available type integer.
That doesn't mean that I sur
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:47:22PM -0800, Darren Duncan wrote:
: At 5:56 PM -0800 1/22/07, Larry Wall wrote:
: >Whether a Num that happens to be an integer prints out with .0 is a
: >separate issue. My bias is that a Num pretend to be an integer when
: >it can. I think most folks (including mathe
HaloO
Darren Duncan wrote:
Up front, I will say that, all this stuff about 1 vs 1.0 won't matter at
all if the Int type is an actual subset of the Num type (but whose
implementation is system-recognized and optimized), meaning that Int and
Num are not disjoint, as "most folks" usually expect t
