Re: RFC 327 (v1) C<v> for Vertical Tab by Bennett Todd- October 6, 2000 Is Vertical Tab used as whitespace in any current systemI thought it was an artifact of the old line printers doing heavyduty forms stuff, and went out with them.-Bennetthttp://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.language.data/2000/10/msg468.html Re: Variable attributes (was Re: RFC 355 (v1) Leave $ alone.) by John Porter- October 1, 2000 Jeremy Howard wrote:> > I haven&39;t got around to RFCing the more generic version (that all attributes> are inherited inside nested data types), but that would certainly be a nice> approach.Not to confuse, let&39;s call it cascading instead of inheritance.-- John Porterhttp://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.language.data/2000/10/msg467.html Re: Variable attributes (was Re: RFC 355 (v1) Leave $ alone.) by Nathan Wiger- October 1, 2000 > I haven&39;t got around to RFCing the more generic version (that all attributes> are inherited inside nested data types), but that would certainly be a nice> approach.RFC 337...the new version I just sent in says: This would allow those who want to to warp Perl OO into Java or Python or C++ without these features having to be either widely used or embedded in core. A base class could simply define attribute handlers which other classes could then inherit from. Attributes...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.language.data/2000/10/msg466.html Re: Variable attributes (was Re: RFC 355 (v1) Leave $ alone.) by Jeremy Howard- October 1, 2000 Dan Sugalski wrote:> At 11:33 AM 10100 -0700, Peter Scott wrote:> >But, setting aside my visceral reaction to changing array bases, you have> >precisely the same problem here that has scuppered my intent to file an> >RFC for hashes with fixed keys; how do you apply the attribute to> >anonymous, let alone autovivified, arrays If I say> >> > my a :base(1);> >> >then what of $a11 How to specify that the second level array also>...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.language.data/2000/10/msg465.html Re: RFC 231 (v1) Data: Multi-dimensional arrayshashes and slices by Jeremy Howard- October 1, 2000 Ilya Zakharevich wrote:> On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 08:51:04AM +1100, Jeremy Howard wrote:> > Please no! Anything that makes it harder to write &39;quick-and-dirty&39;scripts> > is never going to fly--this is part of what makes Perl special.>> Why I see no problem in making -Mstrict and -Wall the defaults.> Then make &39;-E&39; option to mean what &39;-e&39; means today, and &39;-e&39; mean>> -M-strict -Wnone -E>Personally, I wouldn&39;t mind this, but relying...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.language.data/2000/10/msg464.html Re: RFC 231 (v1) Data: Multi-dimensional arrayshashes and slices by Ilya Zakharevich- October 1, 2000 On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 08:51:04AM +1100, Jeremy Howard wrote:> > > A prototypeless-function call.> > >> > get rid of them all!!> > Please no! Anything that makes it harder to write &39;quick-and-dirty&39; scripts> is never going to fly--this is part of what makes Perl special.Why I see no problem in making -Mstrict and -Wall the defaults.Then make &39;-E&39; option to mean what &39;-e&39; means today, and &39;-e&39; mean -M-strict -Wnone -EIlyahttp://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.language.data/2000/10/msg463.html |