ok, cool, I'm beginning to understand perl6 patterns a bit better.
Just a tiny request though (and I seem to remember this being
discussed)
You were the one who initiated the thread :-)
Ah yes, I forgot about that. Damn brain cells.. ;-)
- I wish that there was an easy syntax to
The reason for the modifier (or even a new operator (g/ for example) is that
you can easily test your regular expressions. The interface is trivial - all you
have
to do is switch your m/ out for g/, and sit back and see how your patterns
translate
into strings.
Yeah, that looks
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 10:49, Luke Palmer wrote:
Let me come right round to my point about perl being open source.
Someone has to do the work somewhere, and making it standard or core
doesn't change that. It just means that it'll take longer.
It also means that there's a possibility that the
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-09-17
Another week, another summary, and I'm running late. So:
This week in perl6-compiler
The current state of the compiler
Discussion of the current state of the nascent perl 6 compiler and how
best to contribute to its development even
First off, I'll point out that this belongs on p6l and nowhere else.
Edward Peschko writes:
It all comes down to what you think is a 'low level' op.. Some
languages think that regular expressions themselves aren't low level
enough to be included in the language, perl thinks that it is
