On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 02:12:06PM +0100, mark sparshatt wrote:
: My main worry with this approach is how it would interact with slurpy
: args. I mean if method is defined as
:
: def method(*args)
: ...
: end
:
: how do I make sure that $clos doesn't become part of args?
In Perl 6 circles we've
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:46:45 -0700, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This maps pretty well onto Ruby's magic blocks
> (and admittedly was inspired by it), though Perl will have different
> syntactic rules about how to pass one, of course, because we're
> generalizing the concept somewhat. I
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 02:21:30PM -0400, Matt Diephouse wrote:
: All this talk of blocks and Ruby (and A12 Lookahead Notions) brings up
: an important question in my mind: how will Perl 6 handle multiple
: blocks? When using Ruby, I found blocks both easy and pretty. But I
: found writing a method
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:36:05 -0700, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, that's precisely why I'm trying to generalize Ruby's single
> "magic" block into one or more ordinary parameters.
Excellent. :)
> Two anonymous adverbs? Hmm. While I can think of ways to force it to
> work, I'm inc
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 08:41:35PM -0400, Matt Diephouse wrote:
: > You know, at some point you just break down and write them positionally:
: >
: > @array.each( { $^odd.bar() }, { $^even.baz() });
:
: Speaking of which, let's talk a little bit about how I'd write these
: methods. After looki
