Re: 'while {' in Perl 6

2002-08-11 Thread Sean O'Rourke
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Larry Wall wrote: (Had an interesting typo there. I put = insteaqd of -. I wonder how much trouble that sort of thing is gonna cause. Maybe pairs can be disallowed or warned about where a pointy sub might be expected.) To add to the list of helpful warnings, I ran

Re: OT: Finite State Machine (was Perl summary for week ending 2002-08-04)

2002-08-11 Thread Markus Laire
Not know what a finite state machine was, I decided to poke around the Net before replying to you. I found this definition: ... at http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/gloss/pattern/dfa.html This seems rather ambiguous, though, as it basically means that a FSM is anything that you can

Re: Light ideas

2002-08-11 Thread Dave Storrs
Ah! Ok, yes, I had missed that. Thanks, this is exactly what I wanted. Dave On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Stephen Rawls wrote: Doesn't the :w option do that? :w/one two/ translates to /one \s+ two/ Not exactly. The regex you showed would match any of these (using underscores for spaces