[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Question: if the compiler *doesn't* raise an error, what happens? How would
> the following code be interpreted, even insanely? An endless loop perhaps?
>
> while something() => $_ { ... }
Changing the closure to use »=>« instead of »->« yields with current P6C:
From: Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (Had an interesting typo there. I put => insteaqd of ->.
> I wonder how much trouble that sort of thing is gonna cause.
> Maybe pairs can be disallowed or warned about where a pointy
> sub might be expected.)
I foresee a lot of problems. To my Perl5 eyes,
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Larry Wall wrote:
> (Had an interesting typo there. I put => insteaqd of ->. I wonder
> how much trouble that sort of thing is gonna cause. Maybe pairs
> can be disallowed or warned about where a pointy sub might be
> expected.)
To add to the list of helpful warnings, I ran
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Adam Lopresto wrote:
: I was wondering whether the Perl 'while (<>){' idiom will continue to be
: supported in Perl 6? I seem to recall people posting example code the list
: using it (although I can't dig any up), but it seems to me that if Perl 6's
: lazy list implementation
On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 02:23:07AM +0800, Christian Renz wrote:
> Actually, I once found myself wondering why while doesn't set $_ all
> the time anyway... It would be nice to do things like
Because the logic of the while construct doesn't require any
connection between the condition and the topic
>I was wondering whether the Perl 'while (<>){' idiom will continue to
>be supported in Perl 6?
Actually, I once found myself wondering why while doesn't set $_ all
the time anyway... It would be nice to do things like
while ($iterator->each()) { ... }
while (query->nextResult()) { ... }
In a message dated Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Adam Lopresto writes:
> I was wondering whether the Perl 'while (<>){' idiom will continue to be
> supported in Perl 6? I seem to recall people posting example code the list
> using it (although I can't dig any up), but it seems to me that if Perl 6's
> lazy l
I was wondering whether the Perl 'while (<>){' idiom will continue to be
supported in Perl 6? I seem to recall people posting example code the list
using it (although I can't dig any up), but it seems to me that if Perl 6's
lazy list implementation is sufficiently smart, it could just be replaced
