Re: [RFC] Perl6 Operator List, Take 5

On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 12:15, Larry Wall wrote: > On 31 Oct 2002, brian wheeler wrote: > : I agree considering, this isn't APL and the problems people have had > : mailing examples (let alone creating them!). > > Nevertheless, it has already been decreed that Perl 6 progr

Re: [RFC] Perl6 Operator List, Take 5

and write my own code in non-Latin-1 environments. I agree considering, this isn't APL and the problems people have had mailing examples (let alone creating them!). I've got to admit all of these operators are scaring me. Seems alot like Brooks' second-system effect. Brian Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Perl6 Operator List, TAKE 4

On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:44, Mark J. Reed wrote: > On 2002-10-28 at 16:39:10, brian wheeler wrote: > > [The below is actually from Larry, not Michael] > > > explicit radix specifications for integers: > > > 0123- decimal > > >2:0110

Re: Perl6 Operator List, TAKE 4

:123?] >256:192.168.1.0 - base 256 >(...etc...) > I've got to admit that I've not paid alot of attention to this thread...but does that mean 0x1234 and 01234 (octal) go away or is this an omission? Brian Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > other uncategorized: &g

Re: Math functions? (Particularly transcendental ones)

On Sat, 2001-09-08 at 11:00, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Okay, I'm whipping together the "fancy math" section of the interpreter > assembly language. I've got: > > sin, cos, tan : Plain ones > asin, acos, atan : arc-whatevers > shinh, cosh, tanh : Hyperbolic whatevers > log2, log10, l

Re: Larry's Apocalypse 1

'perl' or 'perl5' then it should assume perl 5 code unless there's something that triggers it to assume otherwise (I.e. the module keyword) Brian Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: implied pascal-like "with" or "express"

print "$person{first_name} is $person{age}\n"; > print "$person{first_name}'s numerical grade is > $person{num_grade}\n"; > $person{num_grade} = 0 unless $person{never_missed_class}; > if ( $person{num_grade} > 60 ) { print "$person{name} > passed!\n"; } > @temp = ($person{name}, $person{age}); > > > Dave > What if the hash keys we want to use are not valid scalar names? For example, I've had keys like "total - female" as keys, but using the ^ syntax would fail on this... Brian Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC 85 - VMS Style Error coding

er, but it should be pretty extensible so anything can "throw" its own error messages and still be easily caught by regexes. It should also allow for easy localization. Brian Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED]