Perl > perl6-language > October 2003

So, I must ask, what does this do: sub foo() { return my $self = { print "Block"; return $self; } } my $block = foo; print "Main"; $block(); print "End"; That is, the block returns from a function ...

Presuming you can do: (who = $name, why = $reason) := (why = $because, who = "me"); (from A6) Does that imply that you can do: sub routine (name = $nombre, date = $fecha) {...} Anyway, I just ...

The Perl 6 Summary of the week ending 20031005 Hello, good evening, and welcome from the teeming metropolis that is Newcastle/Gateshead, home of The Angel of the North, the Winky Eye Bridge, the ham ...

I just reread the section of A6 about currying, and I have several questions about it. 1) Suppose I have a function like the following: sub foo($param, @param) {...} where the parameter names differ ...

How do you declare a function that doesn't return anything? For instance, a C++ swap function might be declared template <class X void swap(X &x, X &y); It would be nice to declare the corresponding ...

Which it now is. Although, there are some internals issues, too, so I wonder how we can do this. How about, when someone responds to either an -internals- or a -language-specific question, he directs ...

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