average perl users? was: labeled if blocks

2002-10-28 Thread David Dyck
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 at 14:50 -0800, Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Angel Faus wrote: : Could we please, please, please have bitwise operators be out of the : core. We expect that they are not going to be used by the average : user, so it looks fair to apply the

Re: average perl users? was: labeled if blocks

2002-10-28 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, David Dyck wrote: : I admit that I use pack, bitwise operators, as well as 0x constants : in many of my scripts. I'm not sure what Angel means by taking : some of these things out of the core, but if my short perl5 scripts : start to grow to python length I'll have less

RE: average perl users? was: labeled if blocks

2002-10-28 Thread Brent Dax
Larry Wall: # I have historically preferred that approach. Certainly it's # something that could be enforced by a policy file too. An # intro to programming class is likely to have such a policy # file anyway: # # $ perl6 # use CS_101; # if $a | $b { # Prof. Roberts says you