Dave Storrs said:
> On 3 May 2001, Ilya Martynov wrote:
> > >> You can serialize/deserilize object with Storable
> > >>
> > >> $foo = new Bar
> > >> store_fd $foo, \*SOCKET;
> > >>
> > >> and on the other end
> > >>
> > >> $foo = retrieve_fd \*SOCKET;
> > >> $foo->bar;
> > >>
> > >> It will work i
John Porter (Today):
> Nicholas Clark wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 02:44:56PM -0600, John Barnette wrote:
> > > But why extend the syntax for such a niche application?
> > >
> > > * POD can be easily converted to XML.
> > > * POD can cont
Garrett Goebel (Today):
> Horror of horrors: why not support both? Long live: TMTOWTDI. If XML
> documentation fails to thrive, cut it from Perl 6.1. If both thrive, keep
> 'em. As everyone has said XML can be converted to pod and vice versa. Pod
> tools could be made to coexist with XML.
But why
Perl6 RFC Librarian (Today):
> =head1 TITLE
> Add C and C funtions to core distribution
>Maintainer: Nathan Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> =head1 ABSTRACT
> This RFC proposes that Perl include a simple function, C, that
> can be used to interact with these headers more easily. It is a
> gener
> > > No, it's not. Where are we taught this? It's a myth.
> > > The punctuation imposes context on the variable expression.
> > > $foo[0]
> > > accesses an array. Where's the "@"?
> >
> > It accesses an *element* of the array, which is a scalar. This scalar
> > might be blessed into a
John Porter wrote:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
> > $args = 'first second third';
> > @args = split (' ', $args);
> > my $i = 0;
> > %args = map { $_ => ++$i } @args;
> >
> > This is very Perlish to me; the punctuation is part of the variable name
> > and disambiguates nicely.
>
> No, it
Michael Fowler wrote:
> I'm not sure exactly what you consider to be a "true multiline comment", but
> Perl definitely has them by my definition.
>
> =pod
>
> Hi, this is a multiline comment.
>
> =cut
...and there are a lot WORSE ways to do this in current Perl:
sub multiline-comment {}
mul
Michael Fowler wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 05:28:08PM -0400, Michael Mathews wrote:
> > Unlike many programming languages Perl does not currently implement true
> > multiline comments. This can be confusing/tedious to programmers. This could
> > be solved by adding a syntax to Perl 6 that wou
