RE: EX3: Adverbs and print()

2001-10-07 Thread Brent Dax
Damian Conway: #> So, in the … operator, the filter is the adverb: #> #> $sum = … @costs : {$^_ < 1000}; #> #> Does that mean that in the built-in print, the file # handle is the only #> "in-band" argument, and all the actual items to be # printed are merely #> adve

Re: EX3: Adverbs and print()

2001-10-07 Thread John Siracusa
On 10/7/01 4:17 AM, Damian Conway wrote: >> Does that mean that in the built-in print, the file handle is the only >> "in-band" argument, and all the actual items to be printed are merely >> adverbs? > > Yep. Although the "in-band"/"out-of-band" distinction is only one of > convention. > > In rea

RE: EX3: Adverbs and print()

2001-10-07 Thread Damian Conway
> So, does that mean that, to keep C and > Cnew($baz, $frob)> doing the same thing, the object will always > come in before the colon? Yes. > Is unary . gonna refer to the "one and only" > argument before the colon? Yes. > Cool. Yes. ;-) Damian

Re: EX3: Adverbs and print()

2001-10-10 Thread Bart Lateur
On Sat, 06 Oct 2001 22:20:49 -0400, John Siracusa wrote: >So, in the … operator, the filter is the adverb: > >$sum = … @costs : {$^_ < 1000}; WTF is that operator? All I see is a black block. We're not in ASCII any more, Toto... -- Bart.

Re: EX3: Adverbs and print()

2001-10-10 Thread Piers Cawley
Bart Lateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 06 Oct 2001 22:20:49 -0400, John Siracusa wrote: > > >So, in the … operator, the filter is the adverb: > > > >$sum = … @costs : {$^_ < 1000}; > > WTF is that operator? All I see is a black block. We're not in ASCII any > more, Toto... I'm g

Re: EX3: Adverbs and print()

2001-10-10 Thread John Siracusa
On 10/10/01 7:27 AM, Piers Cawley wrote: > Bart Lateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Sat, 06 Oct 2001 22:20:49 -0400, John Siracusa wrote: >> >>> So, in the … operator, the filter is the adverb: >>> >>>$sum = … @costs : {$^_ < 1000}; >> >> WTF is that operator? All I see is a black bloc