Re: Manuthreading

2005-08-29 Thread TSa
HaloO, Damian Conway wrote: I think that's an appalling idea. <<>> is *vastly* more valuable as interpolated word list. I agree. If you *have* to propose manuthreading, go with the previous proposal and use >><< instead. The argument that the angles should point

Re: Manuthreading

2005-08-28 Thread Damian Conway
ning. I think that's an appalling idea. <<>> is *vastly* more valuable as interpolated word list. If you *have* to propose manuthreading, go with the previous proposal and use >><< instead. The argument that the angles should point to the operator is spuriou

Re: Manuthreading

2005-08-28 Thread Yuval Kogman
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 22:22:07 +1000, Damian Conway wrote: > You're going to need to find another syntax. That one already means something > else (namely, shell-like interpolating word list). Luke said he was going to sleep, so I'll point you to some chat logs instead of letting you wait for hi

Re: Manuthreading

2005-08-28 Thread Damian Conway
Luke wrote: Now I'm going to propose a variant for circumfix: foo(1, <<@a>>, 2); Where the meta operator is pointing to the parentheses around the call. Then it is easy to do my map above: my ($val1, $val2, $val3) = foo("bar", <<1,2,3>>, "baz") You're going to need to find another

Re: Manuthreading

2005-08-28 Thread Yuval Kogman
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 09:45:02 +, Luke Palmer wrote: > Where the meta operator is pointing to the parentheses around the > call. Then it is easy to do my map above: > > my ($val1, $val2, $val3) = foo("bar", <<1,2,3>>, "baz") I think a some << and >> of the same "shape" thrown into to

Manuthreading

2005-08-28 Thread Luke Palmer
While nothingmuch and I are gutting junctions and trying to find the right balance of useful/dangerous, I'm going to propose a new way to do autothreading that doesn't use junctions at all. First, let me show you why I think junctions aren't good enough: I can't extract the information that the t