RE: switch/case (c) vs. case (pascal)

2000-08-04 Thread Ala Qumsieh
Tom Hughes wrote: > Is there any difference, besides the default fall through of > the C switch statement? I believe Pascal's case statement allows only one statement to be executed for each case. This is, IMHO, a pain in the ass. Personally, I prefer to see something more like C's switch, but

RE: RFC: lexical variables made default

2000-08-02 Thread Ala Qumsieh
Scott wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 08:45:04AM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote: > > Anything one chooses potentially conflicts with the user's > > namespace, but probably save() or temp() would be better, > > or even savetemp() or tempsave() or scopetemp(). > > How about deliver() or preserve

RE: What is Perl?

2000-08-01 Thread Ala Qumsieh
Dirk wrote: > How about considering the idea of "synonyms", though?Is > it unreasonable to have "unlink()" and "fdelete()" (or > whatever it is on Win32) mean the same thing? This brings back an idea I had a while ago. How about defining a module, that could be part of the standard distri