Re: ~ for concat / negation (Re: The Perl 6 Emulator)

2001-06-22 Thread Benjamin Stuhl
In summary: 1. I don't like ~ for concat 2. But if it does become concat, then we still shouldn't change ~'s current unary meaning Thanks for listening. -Nate I agree completely. However, this is no longer really a topic for -internals, it's really a purely language

Re: ~ for concat / negation (Re: The Perl 6 Emulator)

2001-06-22 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 05:17 AM 6/22/2001 -0700, Benjamin Stuhl wrote: In summary: 1. I don't like ~ for concat 2. But if it does become concat, then we still shouldn't change ~'s current unary meaning Thanks for listening. -Nate I agree completely. However, this is no longer

Re: ~ for concat / negation (Re: The Perl 6 Emulator)

2001-06-22 Thread James Mastros
From: Nathan Wiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 4:41 PM Subject: ~ for concat / negation (Re: The Perl 6 Emulator) Does anyone else see a problem with =~ ? Plus, it makes the pre-plus-concat that many desire impossible, since

~ for concat / negation (Re: The Perl 6 Emulator)

2001-06-21 Thread Nathan Wiger
* Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] [06/14/2001 15:16]: OK, I've been teasing people about this for weeks, and it's time to stop. This is the current state of the Perl 6 emulator; it applies most things that Damian talked about in his keynote yesterday, and most of the things I've picked up in

Re: ~ for concat / negation (Re: The Perl 6 Emulator)

2001-06-21 Thread Simon Cozens
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:31:22PM +0100, Graham Barr wrote: We can have a huge thread, just like before, but until we see any kind of update from Larry as to if he has changed his mind it is all a bit pointless. For what it's worth, I like it. Does anyone else see a problem with =~ ?

Re: ~ for concat / negation (Re: The Perl 6 Emulator)

2001-06-21 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:49:21PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:31:22PM +0100, Graham Barr wrote: We can have a huge thread, just like before, but until we see any kind of update from Larry as to if he has changed his mind it is all a bit pointless. For what

Re: ~ for concat / negation (Re: The Perl 6 Emulator)

2001-06-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:31:22PM +0100, Graham Barr wrote: We can have a huge thread, just like before, but until we see any kind of update from Larry as to if he has changed his mind it is all a bit pointless. For what it's worth, I like it. So do

Re: ~ for concat / negation (Re: The Perl 6 Emulator)

2001-06-21 Thread Bart Lateur
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 23:49:21 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: Does anyone else see a problem with =~ ? Does anyone else see a problem with $negated=~$scalar; ? :) You forgot the space between the = and the ~. And yes, that is a bit of a problem. -- Bart.

Re: ~ for concat / negation (Re: The Perl 6 Emulator)

2001-06-21 Thread Me
For what it's worth, I like it. So do I, actually... it's sort of growing on me. Me too. (I think it (~ for concat, ^ for negation) is just fine.) The clash with =~ is disappointing though. Now if Larry had the cahones to change the =~ operator... (I find the notion of a short infix word,

RE: ~ for concat / negation (Re: The Perl 6 Emulator)

2001-06-21 Thread David Grove
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:31:22PM +0100, Graham Barr wrote: We can have a huge thread, just like before, but until we see any kind of update from Larry as to if he has changed his mind it is all a bit pointless. For what it's worth, I like it. Does anyone else see a problem with =~