Re: continuation taken?

2008-08-02 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 05:25:53AM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote: In S04, Note that temporizations that are undone upon scope exit must be prepared to be redone if a continuation within that scope is taken. What will create a continuation there and how do you take it? That is, how will this

Re: Code-only forms?

2008-08-02 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Aug 2, at 12:57, Larry Wall wrote: On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 05:56:14AM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote: In S04, Other similar Code-only forms ... What does that mean? It is feebly attempting to say that, because these are control flow functions, the argument is really a thunk that the

Edits to submit

2008-08-02 Thread John M. Dlugosz
I've edited several of the S??.pod files,but I have not heard back from the owner ($Larry, whose name is on the top of the file) about accepting merging or rejecting my changes. I've posted the files to http://www.dlugosz.com/Perl6/offerings/ so they don't get lost, until someone with

Re: Code-only forms?

2008-08-02 Thread John M. Dlugosz
OK I think I''m getting it. You seem to have introduced the ability to use a statement rather than a block in these constructs. E.g. try blahblah; Is that in general? So the statements needs to be closure-block-like, even though braces are not written, so anything that depends on it being