Re: [wish list]: perl stuff

• Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 11:52:18 PDT
• From:
  Kipp the Kidd <mcmudge@mailbox.syr.edu>
• Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

At 09:44 AM 8/9/96 PDT, Quinn wrote:
><ONE>
>It would be cool to have some of the anti-statements of Perl, such as
>"unless" (if-not), and "until" (while-not), because '!' just looks real ugly
>beside some things.

I'd spend hours trying to figure out code that looks like this!  This is a
shouldn't-do.

><TWO>
>        "blah" if (foo);

NICE one-liner.

><A-ONE TWO THREE FOUR!>
>        if (foo in [5..8])

Definitely easier... Although it's prolly not, it /looks/ more efficent :)
This is a should-do.

><SPEAKING OF WHICH...>
>        "bar" in "foobarbaz"

I'd say I wish for this statement, on average, about 25 hours a day, 8 days
a week, 33 days a month, 13 months a year ...

This is a must-do.

>I suppose that could break some ruthlessly !d verbs which use "in" both to
>check for type LIST and for membership, though.

Whoever writes verbs like that disserves to have a few petty bugs to fix.

This is a must-do (must do, meaning, we must bug ruthless !d coders)

><UM...>

Yeah, me too.

>That's all for now.  Just more cosmetic suggestions from Quinn.  Oh, and
>remember real comments.  Real comments would rock.  Real comments RULE.  /*
>ROCK AND RULE!! */

  /* Hey, that's great.  Besides the realness of it, it adds a nice       */
 /* destinction between the help system's "comments";, which are evaled, */
/* and maybe programmers' notes or in-db parsing info.                  */

- Kipp
http://radioactivo.com.mx/~paradigm

• Prev: [wish list]: perl stuff
• Next: Re: [wish list]: perl stuff
• Index: MOO-cows
• Thread: MOO-cows