Re: PERL6STORM - tchrist's brainstorm list for perl6

2000-09-28 Thread Adam Krolnik
I think the octal number representation should not be accepted... Adam Krolnik Verification Mgr. LSI Logic Corp. Plano TX. 75074

Re: PERL6STORM - tchrist's brainstorm list for perl6

2000-09-26 Thread Nicola Meade
Yes, while still allowing an explicit A()->B(), of course. I just meant that A->B means A::->B(), or, if you would, "A"->B(). But A()->B would not change in meaning. --tom, posting blind(ly) Visit our website at http://www.ubswarburg.com This message contains confidential information and is int

Re: PERL6STORM - tchrist's brainstorm list for perl6

2000-09-23 Thread Bart Lateur
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 04:20:37 -0400 (EDT), Philip Newton wrote: >On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Tom Christiansen wrote: > >> =item perl6storm #0035 >> >> Make A->B place A in string context, like => does. >> That way no A()->B naughtiness. > >While still allowing explicit A()->B? Of course. You can still

Re: PERL6STORM - tchrist's brainstorm list for perl6

2000-09-23 Thread Philip Newton
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Tom Christiansen wrote: > =item perl6storm #0035 > > Make A->B place A in string context, like => does. > That way no A()->B naughtiness. While still allowing explicit A()->B? Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: PERL6STORM - tchrist's brainstorm list for perl6

2000-09-22 Thread Dave Storrs
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Greg Boug wrote: > > > =item perl6storm #0064 > > > > > > Do something about microsoft's CRLF abomination. > > Perhaps somehow allowing $/ to take multiple input delimeters (perhaps in a > fashion similar to egrep)... How about: [snip] > $/ = "seperator1|seperator2"

RE: PERL6STORM - tchrist's brainstorm list for perl6

2000-09-22 Thread Paris Sinclair
> while () { > s/^M$//; > # Process $_ > } Cute psuedocode. I don't like at all, it makes me feel like I'm dealing with a typewritter. But, giving multiple values to $/ seems more painful to me that to just tr/\r//d; on any suspected M$ strings

RE: PERL6STORM - tchrist's brainstorm list for perl6

2000-09-22 Thread Greg Boug
> > =item perl6storm #0064 > > > > Do something about microsoft's CRLF abomination. > > I think for the case of Microsoft C++ used for the Win32 port, everyone > would be happy if Perl's sysopen, sysread, etc. did not require binmode. > Unfortunately, Microsoft made the decision very early on in i

Re: async I/O (was Re: PERL6STORM - tchrist's brainstorm list for perl6)

2000-09-21 Thread Uri Guttman
> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DS> At 05:35 PM 9/21/00 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: >> i proposed some of that in my rfc47 (universal async i/o). at the perl >> level you need a delivery interface as with events. DS> I'm not really worried about the perl level for th

Re: async I/O (was Re: PERL6STORM - tchrist's brainstorm list for perl6)

2000-09-21 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 05:35 PM 9/21/00 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: > > "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > DS> I would *really* like perl's I/O system to do async reads and > DS> writes to disk files whenever possible. That'd let us get another > DS> burst of speed in some spots, particularl

async I/O (was Re: PERL6STORM - tchrist's brainstorm list for perl6)

2000-09-21 Thread Uri Guttman
> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DS> I would *really* like perl's I/O system to do async reads and DS> writes to disk files whenever possible. That'd let us get another DS> burst of speed in some spots, particularly when slurping through DS> files sequentially (which

RE: PERL6STORM - tchrist's brainstorm list for perl6

2000-09-21 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:22 AM 9/21/00 -0500, Fisher Mark wrote: > > =item perl6storm #0064 > > > > Do something about microsoft's CRLF abomination. > >I think for the case of Microsoft C++ used for the Win32 port, everyone >would be happy if Perl's sysopen, sysread, etc. did not require binmode. >Unfortunately, Mic

Re: PERL6STORM - tchrist's brainstorm list for perl6

2000-09-21 Thread Charles Lane
Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >=item perl6storm #0016 > >object as scope/namespace? see python. it's danged clean >there in that you can now implement safe trivially. >don't have to keep inventing crazy overloads. > Yes, this would be great! >=item perl6storm #0025 > >Make -T t

RE: PERL6STORM - tchrist's brainstorm list for perl6

2000-09-21 Thread Fisher Mark
> =item perl6storm #0064 > > Do something about microsoft's CRLF abomination. I think for the case of Microsoft C++ used for the Win32 port, everyone would be happy if Perl's sysopen, sysread, etc. did not require binmode. Unfortunately, Microsoft made the decision very early on in its C/C++ dev

Re: PERL6STORM - tchrist's brainstorm list for perl6

2000-09-21 Thread Tom Christiansen
=item perl6storm #0106 Safe "signals"! (not syssigs,really)

PERL6STORM - tchrist's brainstorm list for perl6

2000-09-21 Thread Tom Christiansen
=head1 NAME perl6storm - tchrist's brainstorm list for perl6 =head1 DESCRIPTION I'm going away for a long, long time, way past the RFC deadline. Here is my file of notions I've brainstormed over the last few weeks. Some have been covered in other RFCs. Many haven't.