Re^11: next unless condition

Wow. So Perl wasn't the first to introduce "context"!

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Re^12: next unless condition by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Apr 06, 2016 at 23:12 UTC
Wow. So Perl wasn't the first to introduce "context"! Far from it. Indeed, the "context free language" in reality, is an almost mythological beast. Almost none exist; and (IMO) none of those that do, are useful. I'm not enough of an aficionado of language development to assert the absolute origin; but every language that allows you to compare `3.5 < 3` -- and that's most of them -- by auto-promotion of integers to a real, to allow comparisons and numerical operations, is being "context aware". Which puts those that decry Perl's context awareness as some kind of aberration and would deem it verboten, whether by best practice or auto-critiquing, firmly in the camp of the "I'm too lazy to understand it, so nobody is allowed to use it" school of thinking. Luckily, most programmers have a mind of their own. With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday' Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". I knew I was on the right track :) In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^12: next unless condition
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Apr 06, 2016 at 23:12 UTC

Wow. So Perl wasn't the first to introduce "context"!

Far from it. Indeed, the "context free language" in reality, is an almost mythological beast. Almost none exist; and (IMO) none of those that do, are useful.

I'm not enough of an aficionado of language development to assert the absolute origin; but every language that allows you to compare 3.5 < 3 -- and that's most of them -- by auto-promotion of integers to a real, to allow comparisons and numerical operations, is being "context aware".

Which puts those that decry Perl's context awareness as some kind of aberration and would deem it verboten, whether by best practice or auto-critiquing, firmly in the camp of the "I'm too lazy to understand it, so nobody is allowed to use it" school of thinking. Luckily, most programmers have a mind of their own.

With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'

Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.

"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". I knew I was on the right track :)

In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.

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