Larry Wall Interview

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Re: Larry Wall Interview by jepri (Parson) on Sep 06, 2002 at 17:07 UTC
I can't get over bits of that interview: Perl 6 will give you the big knob. - Larry Wall ____________________ Jeremy I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.	[reply]
Re: Re: Larry Wall Interview by abell (Chaplain) on Sep 06, 2002 at 19:52 UTC
What about the ending: I expect to hear some great sucking sounds over the next ten or twenty years. - Larry Wall Cheers Antonio Bellezza	[reply]
Re: Re: Larry Wall Interview by rattusillegitimus (Friar) on Sep 06, 2002 at 19:13 UTC
How log before that's one of the monk quips at the top of the page? ;) -- `$rattusillegitimus = Eliza::PerlMonks::Robot::new()`	[reply]
Re: Larry Wall Interview by fenonn (Chaplain) on Sep 06, 2002 at 21:28 UTC
From Question number 5: I also liked Ruby's unary splat operator, so I borrowed it for Perl 6. I was wondering what is the "splat operator" and what it does. I did a searh for this on google but I couldn't find much. I also read the Apocalypse 3: Operators (October 2, 2001) and didn't see what I was looking for. Can anyone answer this?	[reply]
Re(2): Larry Wall Interview by Arien (Pilgrim) on Sep 06, 2002 at 22:36 UTC
The splat operator is the symbol also known as star or asterisk: ``. As a unary operator it will flatten lists in Perl6 (you will find it under Unary in A3). — Arien	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Larry Wall Interview by Anonymous Monk on Sep 06, 2002 at 22:27 UTC
It makes arrays go splat.	[reply]
Re: Larry Wall Interview by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Sep 07, 2002 at 06:35 UTC
I'm with Aristotle on the structure of discourse - a story should have a beginning, and middle, and an end. -- Larry Wall Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]