Re: perl6-language-regex summary for 20000911

2000-09-11 Thread David Corbin
withdrew from this discussion pending others' ideas of alternatives. I too am looking forward to the alternative MJD has promised. Until that time, perhaps RFC145 should be updated with this syntax. -Nate -- David Corbin Mach Turtle Technologies, Inc. http://www.machturtle.com

Re: XML/HTML-specific ? and ? operators? (was Re: RFC 145 (alternate approach))

2000-09-06 Thread David Corbin
Some stuffbr /p Finally, tags which take arguments: div align="center"Stuff/div Would require some type of "this is optional" syntax: /(?div\s*\w*)Stuff(?)/ Perhaps only the first word specified is taken as the tag name? This is the XML/HTML spe

Re: RFC 145 (alternate approach)

2000-09-05 Thread David Corbin
airs with the previous ?m, if there was one that was matched. The | character separates or'ed sets consistent with other regex patterns. You can do that, or you can say it's done with backreferences (as noted above) -Nate David Corbin wrote: I never saw one comment on this, and the more I think ab

Re: the C JIT

2000-08-31 Thread David Corbin
ow this could become a serious distraction to what I perceive as the likely goals of Perl6. -- David Corbin Mach Turtle Technologies, Inc. http://www.machturtle.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC Updates

2000-08-31 Thread David Corbin
not imply acceptance, rejection or a concensus view on the RFC. Comments, criticisms, etc. welcome. Updates to dev.perl.org/rfc/meta are scheduled for later this week. Z. Can you put a legend explaining the color code on the pages where the colors are used? -- David Corbin

Re: RFC 133 (v1) Alternate Syntax for variable names

2000-08-28 Thread David Corbin
(apply regular expression and only keep keys that match) -- Bron ( but I don't think the ugliness is worth it in the end.. ) -- David Corbin Mach Turtle Technologies, Inc. http://www.machturtle.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC 162 (v1) Filtering Here Docs

2000-08-28 Thread David Corbin
you'd have to be consistent in what you put in front of the text lines (and in the whitespace prefix definition). -- Bart. Why not make the details of this controlled by a pragma? -- David Corbin Mach Turtle Technologies, Inc. http://www.machturtle.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Let's have a Standard for Module Configuration

2000-08-28 Thread David Corbin
r thoughts about the module install system. What about Foo::Configuration? /Cajo. At 13.35 -0400 2000-08-25, David Corbin wrote: There are several modules I've run across that require you to edit them after you've installed them. I consider this to be a very bad thing. What I'm thinking

Re: Nice to have'it

2000-08-28 Thread David Corbin
should stay Perl, but must be more than Perl. Perl6 should be fast as mentioned in one RFC - but most importantly it must be featurefull and must continue its tradition - "writing less, doing much" = iVAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] = -- David Corbin Mach Turtle Technologies, Inc. http://www.machturtle.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What makes Perl Perl?

2000-08-25 Thread David Corbin
the four I posted, originally, I've added two. Here's my working list. native pattern matching; list manipulation aweswome text processing. It's application glue (thanks Tim) Ability to write powerful 1-line programs. Make easy things easy and hard things possible. (paraphrased, I suspect) --

Re: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket functions from core

2000-08-25 Thread David Corbin
lities for inclusion in such a list: native pattern matching; list manipulation aweswome text processing. It's application glue (thanks Tim) Is this an reasonable idea? and a reasonable start? -- David Corbin Mach Turtle Technologies, Inc. http://www.machturtle.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC 133 (v1) Alternate Syntax for variable names

2000-08-24 Thread David Corbin
this one. # I'm not sure at all about these - I tend to avoid interpolation of arrays and hashes for "safety" $x = "xx@{array}yy" $x = "xx{array[]}yy" -- David Corbin Mach Turtle Technologies, Inc. http://www.machturtle.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ideas that need RFCs?

2000-08-23 Thread David Corbin
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