Perl > perl6-language > December 2000

Is there a perl6 sort committee yet? AFter reading Cawley's method here, I wonder if using it we could make radix-sorts the default sort method. -------- Original Message -------- Return-Path: ...

Limbo, the systems programming language of Inferno, nee Plan 9, nee UNIX. http://www.vitavuova.com/inferno/papers/limbo.html ( Found thorough the the recent /. link where a whole operating system ...

Can the autovivication behavior be changed slightly for Perl 6? Specificly, can we suppress autovivication in read-only circumstances, and evaluate the expression as "undef" immediately instead of ...

perlop: Should this second paragraph still be true for Perl 6? I have at times wanted to do something of the form perl -lwe '$x = "x"; $y = "y"; $y =~ ($x eq "x" ? s/y/z/ : s/y/a/); print $y' but I ...

I just got off the phone with Larry. He's been laid up for three weeks with a trip to Japan followed by a virus from Japan. He's on his feet again, and continuing to work through the RFCs. He's ...

In "Listing of possible context combinations:" there is (SCALAR, 1, LVALUE) func() = $x; shouldn't there also be (LIST, ~0, LVALUE) func() = @x; I can't find any discussion of this part in the ...

<mstevens other languages are great. they are a source of features to steal^Wborrow. <Skud INTERCAL <mstevens except maybe intercal