| payal | hi all |
| thrig | ScribbleJ: excess protein can be problematic for kidneys. Hence baby cow food being banned for human babies under one |
| rindolf | Hi all. I'm working on a collection of "Larry Wall facs". Here's what I have so far: 1. Larry gets the colon. |
| D_Fosco | is it possible to make a subroutine with subroutines in it? |
| rindolf | 2. Larry Wall can understand the Perl code he wrote last year. |
| action | CPAN upload: ICal-QuickAdd-0.5_1 by MARKSTOS |
| CPAN | upload: ICal-QuickAdd-0.5_1 by MARKSTOS |
| rindolf | D_Fosco: yes. perlbot: closures |
| perlbot | see "perlbot: references" and then http://www.shlomifish.org/lecture/Perl/Newbies/lecture3/refs_to_funcs/ and then "perlbot sicp". |
| rindolf | D_Fosco: ^^^ |
| D_Fosco | rindolf: how would i do that? |
| rindolf | D_Fosco: read what I showed you. D_Fosco: it's explained there. And quite briefly. |
| D_Fosco | ok thank you |
| payal_ | hi all sorry got disconnected what does this exactly do? my($what, @array) = @_; |
| thrig | variable assignment! |
| payal_ | is length of @_ assigned to $what and @array is undef |
| thrig | why would that be? the () imply list context, not scalar context |
| payal_ | then what is assigned to $what |
| jonsmith1982 | S_[0] $_[0] |
| payal_ | how come? |
| jonsmith1982 | i always say S in my mind hehe |
| thrig | do you know what list context is? |
| payal_ | thrig: now I think of it - NO this has troubled me a lot - made me gave up perl 2 times can someone explain how this really work |
| pasteling | "thrig" at 76.22.53.96 pasted "list vs. scalar context for payal" (10 lines, 191B) at http://sial.org/pbot/23769 |
| payal_ | my($what, @array) = @_; |
| jonsmith1982 | i see it as an array being split into ($var1, $var2) another array kindof |
| Milardovich | hi everybody |
| payal_ | I am just reading the pasteling |