On Sep 9, 2004, at 9:14 AM, Larry Wall wrote:
I just borrowed the - from Perl 5 because I knew it was available,
and I thought it read better for Cfor loops than the Ruby approach.
Interestingly, I was at PDX.pm last night for a presentation entitled,
Ruby for Perl Programmers. One of the things
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 09:27:36AM -0700, David Wheeler wrote:
: On Sep 9, 2004, at 9:14 AM, Larry Wall wrote:
:
: I just borrowed the - from Perl 5 because I knew it was available,
: and I thought it read better for Cfor loops than the Ruby approach.
:
: Interestingly, I was at PDX.pm last
On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 13:14, Larry Wall wrote:
So whereas Ruby's syntax actually tends to push you toward .each
iterators, Perl 6's syntax will be fairly neutral on the subject,
or maybe biased every so slightly away from method iteration by the
width of about one character:
for @foo {
Aaron Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 13:14, Larry Wall wrote:
So whereas Ruby's syntax actually tends to push you toward .each
iterators, Perl 6's syntax will be fairly neutral on the subject,
or maybe biased every so slightly away from method iteration by the
width
