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On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 21:39, Ronald J Kimball wrote: > C<< >> was new in 5.6. It is already in use throughout the core > documentation. I don't think it makes much sense to add new uses of E<gt> > instead. Okay. Furthermore I've changed the index variable from an x to an i because it's an index variable instead of an unknown, which addresses the fact that none of the first four examples care at all about the value of $x, and it should please any old fortran programmers who might stumble into the passage. IMO splice doesn't even need to fetch its data arguments and should manipulate aliases, just to cause more problems. Maybe in an ideal world, C<splice> (and the four instructions that one mistakenly (?) imagines are sugar for it) would work with COW aliases instead of values. And we could use indentation to indicate blocking, instead of all these damn curly brackets. (The sentence previous to this one is a joke.) Do we have copy-on-write assignment yet? I know it's been discussed here before. What's its current status? I guess COW_ALIAS would have to be yet another tie primitive then, and a TIESCALAR package that didn't provide it would default to FETCHing. David -- David Nicol, independent consultant and contractor have a nice day, really. http://www.funnytimes.comThread Previous | Thread Next