Re: Feeding potatoes to dead horses

2001-07-13 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 06:56:25PM -0700, Dave Storrs wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > You can always just do this: > > > > my Value $foo; > > > > And $foo will act like a normal scalar taking anything (your PMAW). > > If that's the goal, I'd vote that it

Re: Feeding potatoes to dead horses

2001-07-12 Thread Dave Storrs
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Michael G Schwern wrote: > We could assume untyped variables are untyped, but I'd rather they're > considered mistakes. Again, the purpose here is to catch mistakes. I > don't know if this will wind up being more or less annoying, we'll > have to play with it a little. F

Re: Feeding potatoes to dead horses

2001-07-09 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 01:02:18AM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote: > > The real problem isn't [sig digs]. The real problem is how much this > > complicates the implicit typing rules. I'm going to have to play > > around a bit and see which way works best. > > I hope you're proposing that fatal err

Feeding potatoes to dead horses

2001-07-09 Thread David L. Nicol
Michael G Schwern wrote: > I'm going to say you need sigils for this: > > print "Hello, my name is $name\n"; > > You're going to say this: > > print "Hello, my name is $(name)\n"; I actually prefer print "Hello, my name is ",name,"\n"; or, the sigil is simply optio