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 a

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 incent

"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