Re: use less in perl6?

2005-04-02 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 10:20:28AM +0200, Yuval Kogman wrote: : How should this stuff be expressed? 'use less' is cute, but i don't : think it really gets there. It's mostly there as a placeholder for all the "true pragmas" that can be ignored if you don't understand them, an idea I originally sto

Re: use less in perl6?

2005-03-30 Thread Herbert Snorrason
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:56:58 -0500, Matt Fowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:48:55 -0500, Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > use less syntax; > Back out the entire p6 grammar and put in lisp's instead... Huh. I suppose that's the only difference these days..

Re: use less in perl6?

2005-03-30 Thread Matt Fowles
Aaaron~ On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:48:55 -0500, Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 10:20 +0200, Yuval Kogman wrote: > > Perl 6 has some more interesting capabilities for lexical scoped > > hinting of tradeoff preferences. For example: > > > > use less precision; #

Re: use less in perl6?

2005-03-30 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 10:20 +0200, Yuval Kogman wrote: > Perl 6 has some more interesting capabilities for lexical scoped > hinting of tradeoff preferences. For example: > > use less precision; # the default nums created in this scope are > # lower precision floats > > use less

use less in perl6?

2005-03-30 Thread Yuval Kogman
Perl 6 has some more interesting capabilities for lexical scoped hinting of tradeoff preferences. For example: use less precision; # the default nums created in this scope are # lower precision floats use less cpu; # many places this can have a desired effect use l